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Journal: Acta Geologica Sinica  2009 No.4  Share to Sinaweibo  Share to QQweibo  Share to Facebook  Share to Twitter    clicks:926   
Title:
Assessment of Geological Security and Integrated Assessment Geo-environmental Suitability in Worst-hit Areas in Wenchuan Quake
Author: LI Wenpeng ,WEN Dongguang ,ZHOU Aiguo ,SUN Xiaoming ,MENG Hui ,SHI Jusong , CHEN Zongyu ,ZHANG Liqin ,FENG Xiaoming ,LIU Changli and ZHOU Jianwei
Adress: China Institute of Geo-Environmental Monitoring,Beijing 100081
Abstract:

The Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 and geo-hazards triggered by the earthquake caused large injuries and deaths as well as destructive damage for infrastructures like construction,traffic and electricity.It is urgent to select relatively secure areas for townships and cities constructed in high mountainous regions with high magnitude earthquakes.This paper presents the basic thoughts, evaluation indices and evaluation methods of geological security evaluation,water and land resources security demonstration and integrated assessments of geo-environmental suitability for reconstruction in alp and ravine with high magnitude earthquakes,which are applied in the worst-hit areas(12 counties).The integrated assessment shows that:(1) located in the Longmenshan fault zone,the evaluated area is of poor regional crust stability,in which the unstable and second unstable areas account for 79%of the total;(2) the geo-hazards susceptibility is high in the evaluation area.The spots of geo-hazards triggered by earthquake are mainly distributed along the active fault zone with higher distribution in the moderate and high mountains area,in which the areas of high and moderate susceptibility zoning accounts for 40.1%of the total;(3) geological security is poor in the evaluated area,in which the area of the unsuitable construction occupies 73.1%,whereas in the suitable construction area,the areas of geological security,second security and insecurity zoning account for 8.3%,9.3%and 9.3%of the evaluated area respectively;(4) geo-environmental suitability is poor in the evaluated area,in which the areas of suitability and basic suitability zoning account for 3.5%and 7.3% of the whole evaluation area.

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