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Earthquake Environments at Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, China

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Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 8

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This paper describes fundamental settings of the Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang against earthquake damage. The potential damage caused by an earthquake might be generally estimated by Intensity scale. The intensity is related to human reaction and structural damages. Based upon the characteristics distribution pattern of the relation between magnitudes and epicentral distances or distances from faults, general effects to structures could be estimated as a preliminary base. Earthquake data from PCSeis (1606–2011) show little effects on the Mogao Grottoes. However, “Sanwei Shan fault,” which locates nearby the site, may cause a very big magnitude earthquake of M = 8. The active fault is extended to the very near to the Grottoes, the Sanwei Shan fault is identified as to produce the most dangerous earthquake to Mogao Grottoes in the future.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Geo Research Institute, 4-3-2 Itachi-bori, Nishi-ku, Osaka, 550-0012, Japan

    Yoshinori Iwasaki

  2. International Institute for Advanced Studies, Kyoto, Japan

    Chikaosa Tanimoto

  3. Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan

    Yuzo Ishikawa

  4. Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan

    Keigo Koizumi

  5. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Koichi Nakagawa

  6. Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan

    Kazuo Oike

  7. Dunhuang Academy, Dunhuang, China

    Xudong Wang & Qinglin Guo

  8. Lanzhou Institute of Seismology, Lanzhou, China

    Lanming Wang

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Correspondence to Yoshinori Iwasaki .

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  1. Inst. for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR), Turin, Italy

    Giorgio Lollino

  2. Inst. for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR), Turin, Italy

    Daniele Giordan

  3. Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

    Cristian Marunteanu

  4. Department of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Basiles Christaras

  5. Geo Research Institute, Osaka, Japan

    Iwasaki Yoshinori

  6. ISPRA-Inst. f. Env. Protection&Research, Geological Survey of Italy, Rome, Italy

    Claudio Margottini

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Iwasaki, Y. et al. (2015). Earthquake Environments at Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, China. In: Lollino, G., Giordan, D., Marunteanu, C., Christaras, B., Yoshinori, I., Margottini, C. (eds) Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09408-3_28

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