A woman hanging a ribbon for victims of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, in Beichuan county, southwestern China, in May last year. The 7.9-magnitude quake left 87,000 people dead or missing. – EPA pic, February 26, 2019.
AUTHORITIES have halted shale gas mining in a southwest Chinese county after thousands of protesters blamed fracking as the cause of three earthquakes that killed two people. A 4.7-magnitude quake hit Rongxian county in Sichuan province on Sunday, followed by an aftershock that day and another 4.9-magnitude jolt yesterday, said the local government.
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