"I'm not saying the earthquake would not have happened without the dam, but the presence of the massive Zipingpu dam may have changed the size or time of the quake, thus creating a more violent quake," he told the Associated Press in a telephone interview.
FIRST came a violent earthquake.
A violent earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck areas near the Pakistan-India border at 8 50 am (local time in Pakistan) on 8 October 2005 -- the strongest and most devastating quake in Pakistan's history.
The most violent quake, on 22 February 2011, killed 181 people.
Some, in the most heavily affected areas, have seen their unsafe homes demolished and have been forced to move to suburbs that were spared the effects of the violent quake.
With the initial shock of the violent quake easing slightly, Bam and its environs were beginning to take stock on Monday, embarking on the first tentative steps in the herculean cleanup and reconstruction tasks that will require years to complete.
By recording fluctuations in this barely perceptible subterranean noise they were able to map geological disturbances in the bedrock of Japan caused by the seismic waves following the violent quake in March 2011.
In 1955 an eruption in the east rift, accompanied by a series of violent quakes, was one of the most destructive in the island's history, with lava pouring from fissures over a period of 88 days, destroying more than 6 square miles (15 square km) of valuable sugarcane fields and orchards.
In Joseph DeLappe's "Quake/Friends.1," another significant piece, six participants join a violent online multiplayer game, Quake III Arena, and reënact an episode of "Friends" while, in the world of the game, they are repeatedly killed.
