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Klinger Y, Xu X, Tapponnier P, Van der Woerd J, Lasserre C, King GCP.  2005.  High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Mapping of the Surface Rupture and Slip Distribution of the Mw 7.8, 14 November 2001 Kokoxili Earthquake, Kunlun Fault, Northern Tibet, China. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 95:1970-1987.

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Van der Woerd J, Owen LA, Tapponnier P, Xu X, Kervyn F, Finkel RC, Barnard PL.  2004.  Giant, similar to M8 earthquake-triggered ice avalanches in the eastern Kunlun Shan, northern Tibet: Characteristics, nature and dynamics. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 116:394-406.

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