[1]XU Ximeng,ZHENG Fenli,GUAN Yinghui,et al.Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Earthquake Disasters and Their Damages Within 2013 in China[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2015,22(04):321-325.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
22
Number of periods:
2015 04
Page number:
321-325
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Public date:
2015-08-28
- Title:
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Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Earthquake Disasters and Their Damages Within 2013 in China
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XU Ximeng1, ZHENG Fenli1,2, GUAN Yinghui1, YAO Yaqing1, QIN Chao1
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1. State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China;
2. Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, CAS & MWR, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- Keywords:
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earthquake disasters; spatiotemporal distribution; provinces; differential analysis
- CLC:
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P315.9
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- Abstract:
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Based on statistics of frequencies of earthquake disasters and their damages within 2013 in China, we analyzed the spatiotemporal distribution characteristics of earthquake disasters, and discussed the damage differences among provinces. The conclusions can be drawn as follows. Moderately strong earthquakes were abnormal active in 2013 in mainland China, especially the Lushan earthquake in Sichuan Province caused huge number of casualties and economic losses. The number of aftershock affected earthquake frequency on the time scale and the energy distribution released by earthquakes were influenced by macro earthquake. Most earthquakes happened in western China and macro earthquakes were active in Chinese North-South seismic belt, with a disciplinary spatial distribution. Most of earthquakes occurred in Sichuan, Yunnan and their border lands. Moderately strong earthquakes were also active in Jilin. In most provinces, slight earthquakes occurred more frequently while the great earthquakes were seldom. It can be found that the economic losses caused by quakes were associated with the energy liberation through earthquakes as well as the development condition of economy in different provinces. Damages in Sichuan and Gansu are the most severe in terms of casualties and property losses, followed by Yunnan and Jilin.