Earthquake and Disaster Risk: Decade Retrospective of the Wenchuan Earthquake

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Li, Yong-Gang (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Natural disasters.; Geophysics.; Geology.; Natural Hazards.; Geophysics/Geodesy.

This book presents review papers and research articles focusing on the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China, discussing cross-disciplinary and multiple thematic aspects of modern seismological, geophysical, geological and stochastic methodology and technology. Resulting from international and...

Table of Contents:

• Inversion of the Earthquake Rupture Process: Methods, Case Studies and Applications to Emergency Response
• Rupture Process of the 2008 Wenchuan, China, Earthquake: A Review
• The Wenchuan Earthquake Fault Scientific Drilling (WFSD) Project
• Coordinated Distributed Experiments (CDEs) Applied to Earthquake Forecast Test Sites
• Annual Earthquake Potential Consultation: A Real Forward Prediction Test in China
• Structural Relationship between the 2008 M8 Wenchuan and 2013 M7 Lushan earthquakes Viewed by Fault-Zone Trapped Waves
• Analyzing Earthquake Events in the Vicinity of Wenchuan Using ETAS Models
• Full-3D Seismic Tomography (F3DT) for Near- Surface Seismic Structure
• Self-correcting Estimate of Earthquake Death Toll Based on Field Reports: The April 25, 2015, Nepal.