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An Aftershock of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake?

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Abstract

Whether the Lushan earthquake is one of the late aftershocks of the Wenchuan earthquake is a scientific issue subject to debate. This is by no means of only academic interest: In the perspective of seismic hazard assessment, if the Lushan earthquake can be regarded as one of the ‘late’ aftershocks of the Wenchuan earthquake, then the time-dependent seismic hazard of the southern Longmenshan fault zone has to be considered at the time scale of aftershock attenuation. Otherwise if the Lushan earthquake is an independent major earthquake, then the seismic hazard of the southern Longmenshan fault zone can be considered at the time scale of strong earthquake recurrence.

This chapter is written by Fang LH, Jiang CS, Jiang H, Zhang SF and Wu ZL (Institute of Geophysics, CEA).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See: http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-51597-682325.html

  2. 2.

    In 2008, the foreign exchange rate was 1 USD ≈ 7 RMB Yuan. April 2008 was the crossing point when the rate changed from above 7 to below 7.

  3. 3.

    See: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/tectonophysics/virtual-special-issues/virtual-special-issue-on-the-2008-wenchuan-earthquake/; and http://www.wceq.org/.

  4. 4.

    See Appendix 2 of this Brief.

  5. 5.

    According to the internal report of the Annual Consultation, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. Materials provided by the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).

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    Zhongliang Wu, Changsheng Jiang, Xiaojun Li & Zhifeng Ding

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Wu, Z., Jiang, C., Li, X., Li, G., Ding, Z. (2014). An Aftershock of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake?. In: Earthquake Phenomenology from the Field. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-15-6_5

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