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Earth Sciences
Geophysics/Geodesy
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Scientific Products Serving the Earthquake Emergency
Serving the emergency response to the Lushan earthquake, several scientific products were produced and disseminated by the CEA institutions. This system of emergency-oriented scientific information service, wh...
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Locally Characterized Seismic Destruction Phenomenology
Field investigation of the engineering damages of the Lushan earthquake revealed some new and to much extent unique damage phenomena. The performance of the engineering facilities as well as the lifeline syste...
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The April 20, 2013, Lushan, Sichuan, China, Earthquake: An Overview
The April 20, 2013, Lushan, Sichuan, China, earthquake is one of the significant earthquakes in China in the 21st century. The earthquake was a test of the enhancement of the capacity to protect against earthq...
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Tectonic Setting of the Earthquake
The seismo-tectonic picture of the Lushan earthquake is clear at the scales of lithospheric plate and crustal block, but remains puzzle at the scale of seismogenic faults. Role of such ‘missing earthquakes’ in...
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Concluding Remarks Without Conclusions: Earthquake and Disaster Phenomenology not yet Included in our Textbooks
Each earthquake teaches us on the understanding of earthquakes and the reduction of earthquake disaster risk. Earthquake and disaster phenomenology, although being empirical and to much extent in lack of syste...
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Aftershock Sequence: Monitoring and Analysis
Based on the regional and local seismic networks, especially the temporary mobile seismic stations deployed in the epicentral region, the aftershock sequence of the Lushan earthquake was well constrained. ETAS...
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An Earthquake Occurred in the Time of the Internet and the Microblog/Twitter
The Lushan earthquake occurred in the time of the Internet and the Microblog/Twitter, providing some fresh phenomenology for understanding the impact of earthquakes on our society.
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The Field Investigation of the Earthquake
Organized by the China Earthquake Administration (CEA), Field Investigation was conducted after the Lushan earthquake. The Field Investigation can be divided into two stages: the stage of emergency, and the po...
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An Aftershock of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake?
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 haz...
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Time-Dependent Seismic Hazard of the Southern Longmenshan Fault Zone and the Sichuan-Yunnan Region: Earthquake Predictability and Its Limit
Time-dependent seismic hazard is one of the critical issues for the social sustainability and one of the challenging scientific problems in earthquake science. For the southern Longmenshan fault zone as well a...
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Geodetic Sensor Systems and Sensor Networks: Positioning and Applications
This contribution focuses on geodetic sensor systems and sensor networks for positioning and applications. The key problems in this area will be addressed together with an overview of applications. Global Navi...
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Positioning and Applications for Planet Earth
GNSS, InSAR and LIDAR are identified as important techniques when it comes to monitoring and remote sensing of our planet Earth and its atmosphere. In fact, these techniques can be considered as key elements o...
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Study and Application of Reliability Analysis Method in Open-Pit Rock Slope Project
Because of the uncertainty of the parameters and characteristics of rock joints, this paper performed research in three respects. (l)The contract model of structural planes established by using ABAQUS, and, ba...
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Analysis on Dynamic Response of Cast-In-Place Concrete Thin-Wall Pipe Pile Composite Foundation under Lateral Seismic Excitation
A new form of driven Cast-in-place Concrete thin-wall Pipe pile (referred as PCC pile) developed independently by GeoHohai has recently been patented in China. In this paper, the dynamic responses of PCC pile ...
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Evaluation of Stratospheric Radio Occultation Retrieval Using Data from CHAMP, MIPAS, GOMOS, and ECMWF Analysis Fields
Two radio occultation (RO) retrieval schemes designed at IGAM to enhance the performance at high altitudes are presented, applied to CHAMP RO data, and validated against ECMWF analyses, GFZ operational retriev...
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Comparisons of MIPAS/ENVISAT and GPS-RO/CHAMP Temperatures
The temperatures retrieved from MIPAS/ENVISAT limb mid-infrared emission and CHAMP GPS radio occultation measurements are compared at altitudes between 8 – 30 km during the stratospheric major sudden warming i...
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Realistic Modeling of Seismic Wave Ground Motion in Bei**g City
Algorithms for the calculation of synthetic seismograms in laterally heterogeneous anelastic media have been applied to model the ground motion in Bei**g City. The synthetic signals are compared with the few ...
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Estimation of Site Effects in Bei**g City
For the realistic modeling of the seismic ground motion in lateral heterogeneous anelastic media, the database of 3-D geophysical structures for Bei**g City has been built up to model the seismic ground motio...
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Earthquake Prediction Research in China: Zhangbei MS=6.2 Earthquake on January 10, 1998
A national conference on seismic trend in China (NCSTC) is held at the beginning of every year by State Seismological Bureau (SSB), which distributes mid — term earthquake prediction, especially for the seismi...
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Determination of Stochastic Models of GPS Baselines in GPS Network Adjustment
It is well known that the variance covariance matrices of GPS baselines (vectors) as obtained from the processing of GPS baseline observations are in general too optimistic. Therefore, it is a common practice,...
