M8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Tectonic Setting of Chuan-Dian Region

   • Huilin Xing, Xiwei Xu

   Pages 1-7

3. Historical Earthquakes, Ms8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake and Its Aftershocks

   • Huilin Xing, Xiwei Xu

   Pages 9-19

4. Earthquake Nucleation and Occurrence – Numerical Investigation

   • Huilin Xing, Xiwei Xu

   Pages 21-38

5. Earthquake Surface Ruptures

   • Huilin Xing, Xiwei Xu

   Pages 39-148

6. Earthquake Disasters and Damage Features of Structures and Buildings

   • Huilin Xing, Xiwei Xu

   Pages 149-182

7. Back Matter

   Pages 183-191

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The M8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake occurred in China on May 12, 2008, killing over 69,000 people and displacing millions from their homes. This was one of the most catastrophic natural disasters on record. This book includes 5 chapters describing the tectonic setting and historical earthquakes around the Chuan-Dian region, the nucleation of the Wenchuan earthquake, occurrence and aftershocks. The field observations of earthquake induced surface fractures and building damage, form a major and special part of this book and include a large number of digital photos with accompanying explanantions.

• Building damage
• Earthquakes
• Geological observation
• Seismic hazards
• Wenchuan earthquake
• structural geology

• Earth Systems Science, Computational Centre (ESSCC), University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

  Huilin Xing

• Inst. Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, People's Republic

  Xiwei Xu

The lead authors of this book have many years of expert knowledge related to earthquakes, earthquake hazards and the relevant fields of geological observation and numerical analysis and are specifically well acquianted with the geological setting and earthquakes around Chuan-Dian region.

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