Investigating Landslides Caused by Earthquakes – A Historical Review

Post-earthquake field investigations of landslide occurrence have provided a basis for understanding, evaluating, and mapping the hazard and risk associated withearthquake-induced landslides. This paper traces thehistorical development of knowledge derived from these investigations. Before 1783, historical accounts of the occurrence of landslides in earthquakes are typically so incomplete and vague that conclusions based on these accounts are of limited usefulness. For example, the number of landslides triggered by a given event is almost always greatly underestimated. The first formal, scientific post-earthquake investigation that included systematic documentation of the landslides was undertaken in the Calabria region of Italy after the 1783 earthquake swarm. From then until the mid-twentieth century, the best information on earthquake-induced landslides came from a succession ofpost-earthquake investigations largely carried out by formal commissions that undertook extensive ground-based field studies. Beginning in the mid-twentieth century, when the use of aerial photography became widespread, comprehensive inventories of landslide occurrence have been made for several earthquakes in the United States, Peru, Guatemala, Italy, El Salvador, Japan, and Taiwan. Techniques have also been developed for performing ``retrospective' analyses years or decades after an earthquake that attempt to reconstruct the distribution of landslides triggered by the event. The additional use of Geographic Information System (GIS) processing and digital mapping since about 1989 has greatly facilitated the level of analysis that can applied to mapped distributions of landslides. Beginning in 1984, syntheses of worldwide and national data on earthquake-induced landslides have defined their general characteristics and relations between their occurrence and various geologic and seismic parameters. However, the number of comprehensive post-earthquake studies of landslides is still relatively small, and one of the most pressing needs in this area of research is for the complete documentation of landslides triggered by many more earthquakes in a wider variety of environments.     

Application of Dangerous Probability Function in Risk Estimation of Surface Rupture Earthquake：Taking the Lingwu Fault in Ningxi1 Region as on Example

Based on the fitting on paleoearthquake data of intra-plate regions in the northern part of Chi-na and giving a statistical model of time interdependence,the potential damage earthquakes in a definite future period and characteristics of present shocks along the Lingwu fault have been analyzed by using dangerous probability function and some new data concerned.We have in-ferred that the fault has entered a period that earthquakes will probably occur.There exists a potential danger that a strong earthquake with Ms7.0-7.5 will occur in 10-100a.     

The Advances and Prospects of Research on Earthquake Engineering at IEM

This paper describes briefly the recent advances and acievements of the research projects conducted by the Institute of Engineering Mechanics(IEM) in the period of the Ninth Five-Year Plan(1995-2000) with the support of the China Seismological Bureau(CSB),These projects are related with key problems in the field of earthquake engineering.They are:development of the methods for determining earthquake resistant design load level,study on mechanisms of earthquake damage to buildings.development of new technology of base isolation,and study on earthquake damage prediction and seismic losss assessment methods.Through these studies,quite a number of problems have een solved and some of them have een applied in earthquake engineering design and practice.     

山西地电中短期前兆异常识别方法浅析

用傅氏滑动法、动态距平法、速率法、均值法等对山西大同台、代县台、临汾台的地电异常进行了分析 ,对地电阻率异常的判定、预报方法效能进行了评价 ,对不同的台站 ,从正常的变化形态中找出了突出异常的有效方法 ,从中提取出因地壳应力变化引起的地震前兆异常 ,结果表明 ,5 .0级以上地震在Δ=15 0 km范围内有明显的中短期前兆异常     

基于Exchange Server 5.0前兆网络邮件系统的建立

各省地震局 95 - 0 1- 0 2地震信息网络项目采用的邮件系统是基于 IRIX 6 .5操作系统的Netscape Mail Server2 .0 ,由于其应用与管理有局限性 ,笔者进行了基于 NT系统的 ExchangeServer5 .0邮件系统的应用研究 ,详细论述了基于 Exchange Server5 .0的黑龙江省地震前兆信息网络邮件系统的安装及配置过程 ,得出该网络邮件系统有管理方便、功能强大的结论     

河南豫北地震台网地区波速的探讨

为了解决河南豫北地区地震的定位问题 ,对豫北台网内的 10个典型地震 ,使用了 7个地震台站的资料 ,用波速比求出横波速度 ;用和达定位法 (有的同时使用高桥法 )进行了精确定位 ,求出震源深度 ;测量了震中至各台的震中距 ,以此反算出了纵波速度。通过计算 ,确定出了较为适合河南豫北地震台网地区的波速。     

仁和压容应变短临异常信息的提取及映震能力分析

自1997年以来，已经在仁和压容应变台监测范围内发生了多次中等地震。应用一元线性回归分析方法对1997年4月到2001年12月底的压容应变和井孔水位资料进行分析处理，对该台1997年4月以来的异常特征和映震能力进行了分析和探讨。     

利用GIS进行地震滑坡分析

地震滑坡是由地震引发的一种十分严重的震害，它对人类生命财产所造成的损失是巨大的。地震滑坡事件是一个复杂的过程．影响因素多种多样，滑坡的形成机制十分复杂。为正确认识地震滑坡，以1920年宁夏海原大地震为例，利用GIS强大的空间分析功能，多角度、多层次地对地震滑坡的形成、发生、发展机制进行了研究。指出了用GIS技术研究地震烈度等对地震滑坡的影响作用、合理评价和预测某一地区地震滑坡发生的可能性。     

1303年山西洪洞8级大地震研究综述

叙述了1967年至2002年间国内有关研究1303年山西洪洞8级大地震的进展情况。综合叙述了有关这次地震的地震参数、地震破坏、地震断层、地震形变遗迹、地震发生的新构造与深部构造等。