Scientific Investigation of Continental Earthquakes and Relevant Studies
Yong-Gang Li, Yongxian Zhang, Zhongliang Wu, Ying Li, & Xiaodong ZhangPublished April 30, 2025, SCEC Contribution #14320
The present book is with dual missions: firstly to commemorate the 50th anniver-sary of the successful prediction of the Haicheng MS7.3 earthquake (occurred on February 4, 1975) and secondly to illustrate the part of recent practical results from the regional and international collaboration in earthquake research and disaster miti-gation fostered by the China Seismic Experimental Site (CSES). The CSES is carried out by geoscientists from Chinese scientific community with colleagues abroad and international organizations. The CSES provides a principal natural laboratory to support core researches in earthquake geology, tectonic geodesy, seismology, earth-quake engineering, and computational science. Researchers from different schools, different “paradigms” and different technical routes, carrying out comparative studies and collaborative experiments by the CSES and other international experimental sites help promote standardization work, including the data products, planning, quality assurance, sharing, and upgrades in the design of earthquake science and technology. Reflecting the ongoing practices of the CSES, this book highlights the scientific inves-tigation of earthquakes, that is, the close-in contact with earthquakes shortly after their occurrence, focusing on seismogenic and tectonic environments, seismogenic structures, seismogenic fault structures, source physics, focal mechanism, rupture dynamic process, induced earthquake by hydraulic fracturing, gas emission linked to earthquake activities, earthquake anomalies monitoring and risk assessment, explo-ration of prediction methods, earthquake disaster characteristics and disaster-causing mechanisms, ground motion prediction, as well as state-of-the-art techniques. The readers of this book will broaden their horizons about observational, computational, and applied seismology, and earthquake physics and prediction via learning from the CSES’ practice to aid in preparedness, mitigation, and management of seismic risk.
Highlights of this book:
*Presents multi-disciplinary approaches in investigations for Maduo and Luxian earthquakes;
*Provides state-of-the-art and AI-enhanced techniques in earthquake prediction and risk assessment;
*Reviews in-depth methods in fault structure.
Key Words
China Seismic Experimental Site (CSES), Maduo earthquake, Luxian earthquake, Crustal deformation, Seismogenic tectonic environment, Seismogenic fault structures, Eathquake Physics, Source mechanism, Dynamic rupture process, Seismic sequences, Co-seismic and post-seismic slip,Tectonic stress, Fault-zone waveguid, Gound motion prediction, Dragon King therory, Nowcastering earthquake, QuakeGPT, Earthquake dizaster and predictability
Citation
Li, Y., Zhang, Y., Wu, Z., Li, Y., & Zhang, X. (2025). Scientific Investigation of Continental Earthquakes and Relevant Studies. , Singapore: Springer Nature & Higher Education Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-2826-1.
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