Earthquake and Disaster Risk: Decade Retrospective of the Wenchuan Earthquake

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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 regional earthquake research and disaster mitigation collaborations, and written by international authors from multiple institutions and disciplines, it describes methods and techniques in earthquake science based on investigations of the Wenchuan earthquake. It also includes extensive reference lists to aid further research. The book helps both senior researchers and graduate students in earthquake science to broaden their horizons in data analysis, numerical modeling and structural retrieval for the tectonic, geological, geophysical and mechanical interpretation of the 2008 M8 Wenchuan earthquake to support a global and regional cooperation for preparedness, and the mitigation and management of seismic risk. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Inversion of the Earthquake Rupture Process: Methods, Case Studies and Applications to Emergency Response (Yun-Tai Chen, Li-sheng Xu, Yong Zhang, Xu Zhang)....Pages 1-30 Rupture Process of the 2008 Wenchuan, China, Earthquake: A Review (Thorne Lay)....Pages 31-67 The Wenchuan Earthquake Fault Scientific Drilling (WFSD) Project (Zhiqin Xu, Haibing Li)....Pages 69-105 Coordinated Distributed Experiments (CDEs) Applied to Earthquake Forecast Test Sites (Zhongliang Wu, Yan Zhang, Jiawei Li)....Pages 107-115 Annual Earthquake Potential Consultation: A Real Forward Prediction Test in China (Yongxian Zhang, Zhongliang Wu, Xiaotao Zhang, Gang Li)....Pages 117-134 Structural Relationship Between the 2008 M8 Wenchuan and 2013 M7 Lushan Earthquakes Viewed by Fault-Zone Trapped Waves (Yong-Gang Li, Jin-Rong Su, Tian-Chang Chen, Peng Wu)....Pages 135-178 Analyzing Earthquake Events in the Vicinity of Wenchuan Using ETAS Models (Annie Chu)....Pages 179-201 Full-3D Seismic Tomography for Structure of the Critical Zone (Wei Wang, Po Chen, En-Jui Lee, Dawei Mu)....Pages 203-231 Self-correcting Estimate of Earthquake Death Toll Based on Field Reports: The April 25, 2015, Nepal, Earthquake (Tengfei Ma, Zhongliang Wu, Yingchun Li)....Pages 233-245 Correction to: Earthquake and Disaster Risk: Decade Retrospective of the Wenchuan Earthquake (Yong-Gang Li)....Pages C1-C1