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Concluding Remarks Without Conclusions: Earthquake and Disaster Phenomenology not yet Included in our Textbooks

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Earthquake Phenomenology from the Field

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Each earthquake teaches us on the understanding of earthquakes and the reduction of earthquake disaster risk. Earthquake and disaster phenomenology, although being empirical and to much extent in lack of systematic features, play an important role both in the advancement of earthquake science and technology and in the collaborative efforts for social sustainability.

This chapter is written by Wu ZL and Jiang CS (Institute of Geophysics, CEA).

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Wu, Z., Jiang, C., Li, X., Li, G., Ding, Z. (2014). Concluding Remarks Without Conclusions: Earthquake and Disaster Phenomenology not yet Included in our Textbooks. In: Earthquake Phenomenology from the Field. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-15-6_10

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