Geomorphic Impacts of Earthquakes

Post-Seismic Landscape Evolution

Tim Davies, Alexander Densmore, Xuanmei Fan

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443403767
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geology & Earth Sciences

Geomorphic Impacts of Earthquakes: Post-Seismic Landscape Evolution summarizes the full range of landscape alterations that can result from large earthquakes, ranging from slope instability and river aggradation to prograded coastlines. The book underpins the consequences of major earthquakes, which are increasing as Earth's population burgeons and climate and anthropogenic effects are ongoing. Although the damage to society that results directly from the shaking and ground rupture in large earthquakes is well known, the consequential effects of seismicity on the landscape causes earth surface deformations and hazards that are only now being fully understood.This book will help readers professionally engaged in the Earth sciences be better prepared to assess the full range of natural hazards that threaten particular locations, and to work out how to evaluate their contribution to societal risks. - Explicitly addresses the variety of processes and landforms resulting from the geomorphic cascade that is triggered by large earthquakes - Provides the reader with a basis of geomorphic process knowledge to underpin the ability to foresee the impacts of ground shaking and fault rupture on landscapes - Links seismo-geomorphic processes to hazards resulting from the impact of those processes to analyze the impacts of these processes on society

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Chapter 1 Introduction: tectonics, earthquakes, landforms and society
• Chapter 2 Earthquakes
• Chapter 3 Coseismic ground motion
• Chapter 4 Ground failure resulting from earthquake ground motions
• Chapter 5 Earth surface processes and geomorphology
• Chapter 6 Fault trace processes
• Chapter 7 Coseismic landslides and rock avalanches
• Chapter 8 Geomorphic consequences of seismic liquefaction and lateral spreading
• Chapter 9 Fluvial responses to fault offset and uplift, and coseismic sediment input
• Chapter 10 Glacial processes and impacts
• Chapter 11 Postseismic sediment and geochemical fluxes
• Chapter 12 On-fault geomorphic indicators of past earthquakes
• Chapter 13 Geomorphic impacts of the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan
• Chapter 14 Case study of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, China
• Chapter 15 Case study: 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal
• Chapter 16 Implications for coseismic landslide risk analysis: advances and future directions
• Chapter 17 Summary and future perspectives
• Index