Earthquake Science: a New Start

• 来源期刊: 地震学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2009,（1）
• 页码范围: 1
• 页数: 1页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1007/s11589-009-0001-x

摘要

Understanding the mechanisms which cause earthquakes and thus earthquake prediction, is inher-ently difficult in comparison to other physical phenom-ena. This is due to the inaccessibility of the Earth's inte-rior, the infrequency of large earthquakes, and the com-plexities of the physical processes involved. Conse-quently, in its broadest sense, earthquake science--the science of studying earthquake phenomena, is a com-prehensive and inter-disciplinary field. The disciplines involved in earthquake science include: traditional seismology, earthquake geodesy, earthquake geology, rock mechanics, complex system theory, and informa-tion and communication technologies related to earth-quake studies.