Earthquake and Disaster Risk: Decade Retrospective of the Wenchuan Earthquake

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.

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.