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Zhongguo Bianjiang Minzu yu Huantaipingyang Wenhua (Studies of Chinese minorities and circum-Pacific cultures).
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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Again, although there are a lot of quakes, the quake frequency of China proper is much lower than that of Taiwan as shown in this map note that the record for Taiwan dated from 1600s the earliest vs 3000 years of record for the mainland-- which is on the circum-Pacific belt, with frequency similar to that of Japan, Alaska and California.
China's quake belts Sun Bin 2008
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Tectonically the area lies within the eastern Asia and circum-Pacific belt, and is a part of the Cathayshan fold system.
Mount Wuyi, China 2008
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~ Environmental setting of human migrations in the circum-Pacific Region -- "A new study by Kevin Pope of Geo Eco Arc Research and John Terrell of The Field Museum adds insight into the migration of anatomically modern humans out of Africa and into Asia less than 100,000 years before present BP."
Speedlinking 10/10/07 William Harryman 2007
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Predictions of eruptions at volcanoes in the circum-Pacific "Ring of Fire" have improved with the experience of the last several decades at volcanoes such as Mount St. Helens,
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Predictions of eruptions at volcanoes in the circum-Pacific "Ring of Fire" have improved with the experience of the last several decades at volcanoes such as Mount St. Helens,
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Taiwan sits on the circum-Pacific seismic belt and experiences about 18,500 earthquakes each year.
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Seismometer deployments limited to just land sites on the islands did not provide sufficient coverage for high-resolution imaging, and Hawaii is also far from the most active circum-Pacific zones of earthquakes.
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Taiwan sits on the circum-Pacific seismic belt and experiences hundreds of earthquakes each year, but most are mild tremors.
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To a remarkable extent, this small archipelago with 4,800 inhabitants is part of a larger world, the circum-Pacific world that includes the Aleutians, Kamchatka, the northern islands of Japan and even Korea.
Tyee - Home Crawford Kilian 2008
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