Reduction of earthquake disasters

The article summarizes the researches on mitigating earthquake disasters of the past four years in China. The studyof earthquake disasters′ quantification shows that the losses increase remarkably when population concentrates inurban area and social wealth increase. The article also summarizes some new trends of studying earthquake disas-ters′ mitigation, which are from seismic hazard to seismic risk, from engineering disaster to social disaster andintroduces the community-centered approach.     

Random field characteristics of earthquake occurrence and test of earthquake occurrence rate

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Variation of earthquake ground motionwith depth

Introduction The 21st century is the time for the exploitation and utilization of underground spaces. It is astrategic way to defeat the severe challenge that human are now confronting with, such as the lackof land, contamination of environment, traffic jam, waste of sources, and so on. The exploitationand utilization of underground space has become a global tendency, and a significant sign inevaluating the speed of modernization of cities. Facing the challenge, it is significantly necess…     

The GIS and analysis of earthquake damage distribution of the 1303 Hongtong M=8 earthquake

Introduction The 1303 Hongtong earthquake is an important earthquake in the eastern China. There is a lot of information in historical documents about the earthquake and many traces destroyed by the earthquake in the southern Shanxi Province. Many scholars have studied the earthquake from dif-ferent aspects, but mainly limited the definitions of the isoseismal and three factors of the earth-quake. Owing to being limited by the analysis technique, many useful damage information of the earthqu…     

Method study of classification and gradation of earthquake disasters

Based on data of earthquake disaster events during 1954~2005 in the Chinese mainland, the classification and gradation of earthquake disasters have been studied by multivariate statistical analysis. Three fundamental structures of earthquake disasters have been found and an FAPE (factor analysis-principal component-equamax rotation) classification model and an HCWS (hierarchical cluster-ward method-seuclid) gradation model have been constructed. Earthquake disasters are divided into eight classes and five grades respectively in the models, which give a reasonable explanation to the phenomenon of earthquake disasters.     

Distribution of slip along an earthquake fault

IntroductionInearthquakeandengineeringseismology,fortheexplanationofthehigh-frequencycontentsinearthquakegroundmotion,itisoftenassumedthatalargeearthquakeiscomposedofmanysmallereventswithavarietyofsizes(Frankel,1991).Thesesmalleventscomefromtheruptureoftheasperitiesalongtheearthquakefault,showingthecharacteristicsoffractals(Aki,1981).Thisworkingassumptioncanexplainsomeoftheimportantpropertiesofseismicsourcesuchasthehigh-frequencyfall-offofsourcespectra.Ontheotherhand,however,beinglimitedbyobs…     

Subarea characteristics of earthquake types in Yunnan

Studies on the earthquake sequences and the source mechanisms of the strong earthquakes show that Yunnan hasmore obvious subarea characteristics of earthquake type.Strike-slip seismic fault and mainshock-aftershockearthquake sequences are dominant in whole Yunnan area.Considering the ratio of non strike-slip faults and nonmainshock-aftershock,Yunnan area can be divided into four subareas with different characteristics,which arestrike-slip mainshock-aftershock in central Yunnan(A1),incline-slip swarm in northwestern Yunnan(A2),strike-slip double shocks in western Yunnan(B1)and quasi-strike-slip mainshock-aftershock in southwestern Yun-nan(B2),respectively.     

Study on the earthquake fault of the Lulong ML=6.2 earthquake by precise relocation of aftershock

Introduction The Lulong county is about 75 km northeast to Tangshan in Hebei Province. An earthquake of ML=6.2 took place on October 19, 1982 about 4 km northeast to the county town. The epicenter of the mainshock is located at 39°57′N, 119°04′E by the Beijing seismic network. The 1976 Tang- shan 7.8 earthquake and the successive Luanxian 7.1, Ninghe 6.9 and the Lulong earthquake spread in NE-SW direction in space. SONG and WANG et al of Institute of Geophysics, China Seismolog…     

Application of apparent stress in earthquake prediction

On the basis of the assumption that ω2 model accords with source displacement spectra of moderate-small shocks, we calculate the apparent stress values of 1 020 moderate-small shocks recorded by the Digital Seismic Network of Yunnan Province by using the low-frequency flat level and corner frequencies. The results show that the apparent stress is of good significance in earthquake prediction. The moderate-small shock with apparent stress larger than 0.9 MPa can be used as a referential index to predict moderate-strong earthquakes in Yunnan area. And its relevant predictability evaluation (R value) has a high confidence level.     

Relocation of the 1998 Zhangbei-Shangyi earthquake sequence using the double difference earthquake location algorithm

Introduction On January 10, 1998, at 11h50min Beijing Time (03h50min UTC), an earthquake of ML=6.2 occurred in the border region between the Zhangbei County and Shangyi County of Hebei Province. In total 87 events with ML3.0 were recorded by Beijing Telemetry Seismic Network (BTSN) before March of 1999. Before relocation the preliminary hypocenters determined by BTSN showed an epicentral distribution of 25 km long and 25 km wide without any predominate orientation. The epicentral a…     

The numerical simulation of thesource development of the Tangshan earthquake

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An example of earthquake nucleation of the strong continental earthquakes

IntroductionThe study on earthquake nucleation is widely concerned by seismologists in the world. The experimental and theoretical studies indicate that earthquakes should be preceded by quasi-static slip within a nucleation zone (Ohnaka, 1992; Dodge, Beroza, 1995; Dodge, et al, 1996; Ohnaka, Kuwahara, 1990; Yamashita, Ohnaka, 1991). The earthquake nucleation process means a transition from quasi-static to quasi-dynamic rupture process, and it itself is a short-term precursor. Immediate fo…     

Numerical analysis of the interaction of soil-structure under earthquake loading

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Analysis of foreshock sequence of the 1975 Haicheng earthquake of Ms 7.3

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An scientific evaluation of annual earthquake prediction ability

Introduction There have been nearly 40 years for earthquake prediction since the research on earthquake prediction was carried out in plan by some advanced countries since 1960s. For the hard long process of earthquake prediction, Alen, American famous scientist and former president of the evaluation commission of earthquake prediction in California, USA, said that the difficulty of earthquake prediction is more than the expected and the practical progress of earthquake prediction is more sl…     

A swallow-tail type catastrophic model of earthquake process

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Peak earthquake response of structures under multi-component excitations

Accurate estimation of the peak seismic responses of structures is important in earthquake resistant design. The internal force distributions and the seismic responses of structures are quite complex, since ground motions are multi- directional. One key issue is the uncertainty of the incident angle between the directions of ground motion and the reference axes of the structure. Different assumed seismic incidences can result in different peak values within the scope of design spectrum analysis for a given structure and earthquake ground motion record combination. Using time history analysis to determine the maximum structural responses excited by a given earthquake record requires repetitive calculations to determine the critical incident angle. This paper presents a transformation approach for relatively accurate and rapid determination of the maximum peak responses of a linear structure subjected to three-dimensional excitations within all possible seismic incident angles. The responses can be deformations, internal forces, strains and so on. An irregular building structure model is established using SAP2000 program. Several typical earthquake records and an artifi cial white noise are applied to the structure model to illustrate the variation of the maximum structural responses for different incident angles. Numerical results show that for many structural parameters, the variation can be greater than 100%. This method can be directly applied to time history analysis of structures using existing computer software to determine the peak responses without carrying out the analyses for all possible incident angles. It can also be used to verify and/or modify aseismic designs by using response spectrum analysis.     

Multi-scale analysis of earthquake activity in Chinese mainland

IdentifyingtheactiveandinactiveperiodofearthquakesinChinesemainlandisofgreatimportanceforguid-ingmid-shortterm,especiallyshortterm,earthquakeforecast.Thisisanindispensablestepforstudyingearth-quakepredictioninourcountry.Nowanintegratedsetofconceptsandmethodsforgeneraltrendpredictionofearthquakeactivityhasbeendeveloped.BasedontheChineseearthquakedatasincethebeginningofthe20thcentury,somestatisticalmethodshavebeendevelopedtoanalyzeoccurrencefrequencyandenergyreleaseofearthquakes,distinguishacti…     

Preliminary study on the duration of earthquake activity

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A new approach to numerical simulation of source development of earthquake

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