Introduction.- High.efficiency observations: compressive sensing and recovery of seismic waveform data.- Comparison of early aftershock forecasting for the 2008 Wenchuan Ms 8.0 earthquake.- Assessment of space–time hazard of large aftershocks of the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake.- Space-time precursory features within ground velocities and seismicity in North-Central Italy.- Coseismic and postseismic deformation of the 2016 Mw 6.6 Aketao earthquake from InSAR observations and modeling.- Precursory analysis of GPS time series for seismic hazard assessment.- Stress-strain state monitoring of the geological medium based on the multi-instrumental measurements in boreholes: experience of research at the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii Geodynamic Testing Site (Kamchatka, Russia).- Seismic characteristics and seismic hazard assessment: Source region of the 2015 Nepal earthquake Mw 7.8 in central Himalaya.- Using a structure correction method to improve the location accuracy of the Hotan Seismic Array.- Intensity attenuation model evaluation for Bangladesh with respect to the surrounding potential seismotectonic regimes.- Coseismic groundwater temperature response associated with the Wenchuan earthquake.- Update and test of a seismicity simulation program based on the Coulomb-Navier failure criterion and the stress transfer mechanism.- Frequency characteristics and numerical computation of seismic records.- Relationship between seismic electric signals and tectonics derived from dense geoelectric observations in Taiwan.- 3d viscoelastic finite element study of post-seismic influence of the Wenchuan earthquake in the Sichuan-Yunnan region.- Continental earthquakes in China and loss implications: comparison of the 2014 Ludian Ms 6.5 and the 2008 Wenchuan Ms 8.0 earthquakes 5:6.- Simple models of complex slip distribution? A case study of the 2011 Mw 7.1 Van (eastern Turkey) earthquake.- Possible anomalous changes in solar quiet-day geomagnetic variations (Sq) related to the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake (Mw 9.0).- Magnetic field and electron density anomalies from Swarm satellites preceding the major earthquakes of the 2016–2017 America-Norcia (Central Italy) seismic sequence.- Seismic potential around the northeastern edge of the Longmenshan fault zone as inferred from seismological observations.- High-frequency ground motion and source characteristics of the 2008 Wenchuan and 2013 Lushan, China, Earthquakes.- From natural stresses in seismic zones to the prediction of the nucleation zones of megaearthquakes.- Classification of tectonic and nontectonic earthquakes by an integrated learning algorithm.- Nowcasting great global earthquake and tsunami sources.- Coseismic and early postseismic deformation of the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand from continuous GPS observations.- Seismic hazard assessment of the Democratic Republic of Congo and environs based on the GEM-SSA catalogue and a new seismic source model.- Disaster risk reduction knowledge service: a paradigm shift from disaster data towards knowledge services.- Application of coded excitation signals for measurement of rock ultrasonic wave velocity.- Observations on regional variability in ground-motion amplitude from six Mw 6.0 earthquakes of the north–south seismic zone in China.- Vertical structure of the ionospheric response following the Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake on 12 May 2008.- Temporal and spatial evolution of load/unload response ratio before the M 7.0 Jiuzhaigou earthquake occurred on Aug. 8, 2017 in Sichuan Provinc.- Gravity changes before and after the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake at Pixian absolute gravity station in more than a decade.- Research on b values based on fault buffers.- Variations in locking along the east Kunlun fault, Tibetan Plateau, China, using GPS and leveling data.
Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 was a devastating continental earthquake which caused 69227 deaths, 374643 injured and 17923 missing people. There are many scientific issues revealed by Wenchuan earthquake, and a lot of research work has been published. During May 12–14, 2018, the International Conference for the Decade Memory of the Wenchuan earthquake, in connection to the 4th International Conference on Continental Earthquakes (4th ICCE) and the 12th General Assembly of the Asian Seismological Commission (ASC), was held in Chengdu, China. This book is a collection of some outcomes of this conference. It’s a good professional reference book for seismologists and graduated students to learn about the recent research developments of Wenchuan earthquake and latest research progress on earthquake sequence, seismicity, earthquake physics, earthquake forecasting methods, earthquake disaster assessments, etc.