BSSA Special Issue on the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake
Date: 12/11/2008
BSSA SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE 2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE: Call for Papers
The Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA) will publish a special issue on the 12 May 2008 Magnitude 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake. This event demands our attention because of its devastating effects in a heavily populated region, resulting in one of the largest death tolls related to a continental earthquake during the last century. This earthquake occurred on tectonic structures that were not considered very active, and the processes driving deformation there are still very much in debate. Large continental thrust events are infrequent, although faults that could potentially cause such earthquakes are known to exist in other highly populated areas such as frontal Himalayas or Caucasus. Thus, the data sets produced by this earthquake will provide unique insights on continental thrust events.
This BSSA special issue will focus on results of investigations into all seismological, geodetic, other geophysical, geological, and engineering aspects of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. All authors working in this area are encouraged to submit research papers for consideration as part of this special issue. We recommend that authors contact one of the guest editors who are listed with their primary responsibilities.
* Yann Klinger, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (klinger@ipgp.jussieu.fr) will handle papers on geology.
* Chen Ji, University of California at Santa Barbara (ji@geol.ucsb.edu) will cover papers on seismology.
* Zheng-Kang Shen, Peking University and University of California at Los Angeles (zshen@ucla.edu) will oversee papers on geodesy.
The special issue will be published in September 2010. We will begin accepting submissions in January 2009; the submission deadline is 31 August 2009. Manuscripts should be prepared as described at http://www.seismosoc.org/publications/bssa/authors/ and should be submitted via http://bssa.edmgr.com. Authors should select the category “Wenchuan Earthquake Special Issue” during the submittal process. Questions may be addressed to Andrew Michael, Editor-in-Chief, at bssaeditor@seismosoc.org or Carol Mark, Managing Editor, at bssa@seismosoc.org.
