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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476913703321

Autore

Wang Chi-Yuen

Titolo

Water and Earthquakes [[electronic resource] /] / by Chi-Yuen Wang, Michael Manga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Springer Nature, 2021

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

3-030-64308-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 387 p. 191 illus., 135 illus. in color.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences, , 2193-8571

Disciplina

550

526.1

Soggetti

Geophysics

Hydrology

Hydrogeology

Natural disasters

Geophysics/Geodesy

Hydrology/Water Resources

Natural Hazards

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Groundwater flow and transport -- Hydro-mechanical coupling -- Earthquakes influenced by water -- Response to tides, barometric pressure and seismic waves -- Groundwater Level -- Stream Flow -- Groundwater Temperature -- Groundwater and Stream Composition -- Geysers -- Liquefaction -- Mud Volcanoes -- Hydrologic precursors -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

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.