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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Wenchuan Earthquake"”.
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Towns undergoing changes: a case study on the recovery after the Wenchuan earthquake, China
… normal development procedures. The devastating Wenchuan Earthquake in China occurred on May 12, 2008, and its recovery process provides a unique case for post-disaster recovery research with its rapid reconstruction under a government-led top-down process, in particular a national counterpart …
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Landsliding and sediment dynamics following the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in the Beichuan area of China
… landsliding is a common feature in a post-earthquake mountainous environment. The intense seismic shaking of an earthquake leaves the ground destabilised and thus very susceptible to slope failure. In addition to co-seismic landsliding, many slopes retain the high potential to fail for a …
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Controls on the distribution of landslides triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan Province, China
… the majority of landslides are induced by earthquakes, rainstorms or a combination of these two. Landslides are also one of the most destructive geological processes, being the primary cause of damage and fatalities associated with severe storms and earthquakes in mountainous regions. On …
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Post-disaster recovery planning and sustainable development — a lesson from the Wenchuan earthquake, China, 2008
In May 12, 2008, Wenchuan was hit by a Mw 7.9 earthquake, which affected 170,000 square miles areas and caused more than 88,000 deaths. The Chinese government responded immediately after the earthquake. Under the hierarchical top-down political structure, central government established a special …
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Changing Authority in the Chinese Communist Party
… the Yang brothers and that of Wen Jiabao and the Wenchuan earthquake, to show how authority is shifted. The examination of these cases reveals that while personal authority routinely was more important than institutional authority leaders with personal authority have died out and not been …
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Investigations of the b-value and its variations on possible earthquake prediction in the North-South China Seismic Belt
… studied extensively by researchers as a possible earthquake precursor. In this thesis, two different approaches to compute the b-value for the purpose of earthquake prediction are investigated and discussed. A new methodology, the b-value ratio method, inspired by a 1988 paper by Morgan et al., is …
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Preserving bad architecture : radicaL preservation in the post-disaster era
… experience of the inhabitants. Sited in the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in China, the thesis proposes an alternative way to restore and memorialize the aftermath of the Beichuan town. By establishing a live memorial versus a frozen ghost town, the thesis positions the quake aftermath in a direct …