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Water and Earthquakes

  • Discusses induced seismicity, safety of water resources, underground waste repositories, and groundwater contamination
  • Highlights the need of a good understanding on how the water system responds to disturbances such as earthquakes
  • An up-to-date edition of the only book in this field, providing a comprehensive overview
  • This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences (LNESS)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Introduction

    • Chi-yuen Wang, Michael Manga
    Pages 1-7Open Access
  3. Groundwater Flow and Transport

    • Chi-Yuen Wang, Michael Manga
    Pages 9-22Open Access
  4. Hydro-Mechanical Coupling

    • Chi-Yuen Wang, Michael Manga
    Pages 23-60Open Access
  5. Earthquakes Influenced by Water

    • Chi-Yuen Wang, Michael Manga
    Pages 61-82Open Access
  6. Response to Tides, Barometric Pressure and Seismic Waves

    • Chi-Yuen Wang, Michael Manga
    Pages 83-153Open Access
  7. Groundwater Level

    • Chi-Yuen Wang, Michael Manga
    Pages 155-200Open Access
  8. Stream Flow

    • Chi-Yuen Wang, Michael Manga
    Pages 201-230Open Access
  9. Groundwater Temperature

    • Chi-Yuen Wang, Michael Manga
    Pages 231-256Open Access
  10. Groundwater and Stream Composition

    • Chi-Yuen Wang, Michael Manga
    Pages 257-287Open Access
  11. Geysers

    • Chi-Yuen Wang, Michael Manga
    Pages 289-299Open Access
  12. Liquefaction

    • Chi-Yuen Wang, Michael Manga
    Pages 301-321Open Access
  13. Mud Volcanoes

    • Chi-Yuen Wang, Michael Manga
    Pages 323-342Open Access
  14. Hydrologic Precursors

    • Chi-Yuen Wang, Michael Manga
    Pages 343-368Open Access
  15. Epilogue

    • Chi-Yuen Wang, Michael Manga
    Pages 369-379Open Access
  16. Back Matter

    Pages 381-387

About this book

This open access book explores the interactions between water and earthquakes, including recent concerns about induced seismicity. It further highlights that a better understanding of the response of the water system to disturbances such as earthquakes is needed to safeguard water resources, to shield underground waste repositories, and to mitigate groundwater contamination. Although the effects of earthquakes on streams and groundwater have been reported for thousands of years, this field has only blossomed into an active area of research in the last twenty years after quantitative and continuous documentation of field data became available. This volume gathers the important advances that have been made in the field over the past decade, which to date have been scattered in the form of research articles in various scientific journals.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Chi-Yuen Wang, Michael Manga

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