Evaluating a Prospective Fault-Based Stress-Transfer Forecast for the M 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake Region, 15 Years Later

Stress evolution and fault interactions before and after the 2008 Great Wenchuan earthquake

The prevalence of posttraumatic stress in adolescents eight years after the Wenchuan earthquake.

In 2008, an 8.0 Richter scale earthquake devastated Wenchuan in China, which resulted in heavy casualties, and had wide-reaching psychological effects on survivors. To examine its impact on the survivors, this study aims to investigate the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and posttraumatic growth (PTG) in adolescents eight years after the earthquake. The cross-section survey w...

Web-based terrain and vector maps visualization for Wenchuan earthquake

This paper presents a Web-based three-dimensional Geographic Information System (3DGIS) for Wenchuan earthquake disaster assessment. With the help of information technology resources, geoscientists are in a position to learn more about the structure of the earthquake in efficient ways. Due to huge spatial datasets of Wenchuan, China and narrow network bandwidth, general-purpose applications are...

Giant disturbance in the ionospheric F 2 region prior to the M 8 . 0 Wenchuan earthquake on 12 May 2008

With a new factor, effective sunspot number R eff , the results show that there were giant positive disturbances of foF2 around the epicentral zone on 9 May, 3 days prior to the earthquake. Our results indicate that the observed positive ionospheric disturbances were most possibly associated with the imminent earthquake and the new analytic method has good prospects in practice.

One year later: Mental health problems among survivors in hard-hit areas of the Wenchuan earthquake.

OBJECTIVES To investigate the prevalence of probable post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression, and to identify risk factors related to these mental disorders among hard-hit survivors 1 year after the earthquake in Wenchuan, China. STUDY DESIGN : Cross-sectional survey. METHODS A door-to-door survey covering the entire temporary community was undertaken to investigate 11...