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Cambridge Scholars Publishing The Great 1976 Tangshan Earthquake: Learning from the 1966-1976 Chinese Prediction Program

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From 1966 to 1976, four large earthquakes shook the Bohai Bay rift basin of Northeast China. This prompted the Chinese to launch one of the world’s largest social and science experiments into earthquake prediction that would engage tens of thousands of common people. The climax of this came in February 1975 where a prediction was made hours before the Haicheng earthquake struck. Evacuation of the city of Yingkou and some rural districts saved thousands of lives. The Chinese were jubilant, believing they had cracked the earthquake prediction conundrum. Eighteen months later, however, on the 28th July, 1976, jubilation turned to despair when a great earthquake flattened the large industrial city of Tangshan resulting in 250,000 to 650,000 casualties. This book describes the geological, technical, political and sociological backgrounds to the Haicheng prediction success and the Tangshan prediction failure. Ahead of the Tangshan earthquake, Chinese seismologists had accumulated significant information that suggested an earthquake was imminent and came close to making a prediction. With improved knowledge and vastly improved ability to accumulate, consolidate and analyse data, this book suggests that Tangshan could have been predicted today using techniques developed in China in that epic decade of discovery. Building on these insights, it also offers a viable future pathway towards earthquake predictions that combines the insights and organisation of the 1966-1976 Chinese prediction program with modern technologies, in order to facilitate data gathering, interpretation and sharing. About the Author Dr Euan Mearns is a geologist, specialising in isotope geochemistry, and is currently a Senior Researcher at the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks of ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He has published on crust forming processes and geochronology of high pressure metamorphism in western Norway, the petroleum reservoirs of the North Sea, and the Tangshan Fault complex and the mechanism of this extraordinarily destructive earthquake. Dr Didier Sornette is Professor of Entrepreneurial Risks at the Department of Management, Technology at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and also associated with the Department of Physics and with the Department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich. He is also a Special Professor at the Institute of Innovative Research of Tokyo Tech and Dean of the Institute of Risk Analysis, Prediction and Management at the Southern University of Science and Technology, China. He is a member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences and the Academia Europaea, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the author of more than 700 publications, and 12 books.

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Brand: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1527571645
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > Earth Sciences > Meteorology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 13 December 2021
Listed Since: 01 July 2021

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