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Continental dynamics and continental earthquakes

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Two key research projects in geoscience field in China since the IUGG meeting in Birmingham in 1999, the project of “East Asian Continental Geodynamics” and the project of “Mechanism and Prediction of Strong Continental Earthquakes” are introduced in this paper. Some details of two projects, such as their sub-projects, some initial research results published are also given here. Because of the large magnitude of the November 14, 2001 Kunlun Mountain PassM S=8.1 earthquake, in the third part of this paper, some initial research results are reviewed for the after-shock monitoring and the multi-discipline field survey, the impact and disaster of this earthquake on the construction site of Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) railway and some other infrastructure.

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  1. Institute of Geophysics, China Seismological Bureau, 100081, Beijing, China

    Zhang Dong-ning

  2. Center for Analysis and Prediction, China Seismological Bureau, 100036, Beijing, China

    Zhang Guo-min

  3. Institute of Geology, China Seismological Bureau, 100029, Beijing, China

    Zhang Pei-zhen

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Dong-ning, Z., Guo-min, Z. & Pei-zhen, Z. Continental dynamics and continental earthquakes. Acta Seismol. Sin. 16, 583–592 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02893479

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