Yahoo! News - Reuters, 1/12/13
Reuters/Reuters - Rescuers search for buried victims after a landslide hit Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province January 11, 2013. REUTERS/China Daily
BEIJING (Reuters) - A landslide in southwest China that killed 46 people was partly caused by an earthquake that hit the region four months ago, a geological expert said on Saturday.
Unstable soil and steep slopes also contributed to Friday's landslide in Yunnan province, the state-run news agency Xinhua quoted Jiang Xingwu as saying.
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