Seismically Induced Multi-Hazards

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue “Seismically Induced Multi-Hazards” in Geosciences from MDPI is intended to collect high-quality publications in the fields of applied seismology and geophysics, engineering geology and geotechnics, and paleoseismology and earthquake geology. Papers should discuss recent analyses of multiple types of surface and ground motion effects, as well as cascading hazards (including dam formation and breaching, and mass movement impacts on lakes and post-seismic debris flows), induced by earthquakes. Related studies may focus on ancient, historical, or recent events; on back-analyses, local, and regional (probabilistic) hazard assessment; or on scenario calculations. Particularly welcome are contributions discussing the use of various investigation and simulation methods to evaluate seismically induced landslide hazards, analysing extreme seismic ground failure susceptibility (including liquefaction) in weak soils, such as loess and volcanic deposits, relating multiple ground failure processes to elastic seismic ground motion characteristics, assessing trigger mechanisms over short and longer terms, in soils and rocks, both in subaerial and subaquatic environments, near the activated fault (and the possible related surface rupture) or far from the epicentre.

The Special Issue will start with a review paper written by the guest editors on the relative importance of seismically induced multi-hazard studies in overall earthquake hazard and risk assessment, with applications in mountainous, coastal, lake, and urban environments.

Dr. Hans-Balder Havenith
Dr. Gonghui Wang
Dr. Céline Bourdeau
Dr. Alexander Strom
Dr. Katrina Kremer
Guest Editors

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• Paleo-studies and earthquake scenarios
• Field and lab experiments
• Ground deformation dynamics and failure processes
• Co- and post-seismic triggering
• Surface rupture and near-fault effects
• Site amplification and distant effects
• Giant Mass movements and natural dams
• Tsunami and flood hazards