Overview
- Discusses induced seismicity, safety of water resources, underground waste repositories, and groundwater contamination
- Highlights the need of a good understanding on how the water system responds to disturbances such as earthquakes
- An up-to-date edition of the only book in this field, providing a comprehensive overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences (LNESS)
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This open access book explores the interactions between water and earthquakes, including recent concerns about induced seismicity. It further highlights that a better understanding of the response of the water system to disturbances such as earthquakes is needed to safeguard water resources, to shield underground waste repositories, and to mitigate groundwater contamination. Although the effects of earthquakes on streams and groundwater have been reported for thousands of years, this field has only blossomed into an active area of research in the last twenty years after quantitative and continuous documentation of field data became available. This volume gathers the important advances that have been made in the field over the past decade, which to date have been scattered in the form of research articles in various scientific journals.
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Water and Earthquakes
Authors: Chi-Yuen Wang, Michael Manga
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64308-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64307-2Published: 05 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64310-2Published: 18 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64308-9Published: 04 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2193-8571
Series E-ISSN: 2193-858X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 387
Number of Illustrations: 56 b/w illustrations, 135 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy, Hydrology/Water Resources, Hydrogeology, Natural Hazards