[iris-bulk] BSSA Special Issue on the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake

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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 at ipgp.jussieu.fr)
will handle papers on geology.
•        Chen Ji, University of California at Santa Barbara
(ji at geol.ucsb.edu) will cover
papers on seismology.
•        Zheng-Kang Shen, Peking University and University of California
at Los Angeles
(zshen at 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 at seismosoc.org or Carol Mark, Managing
Editor, at bssa at seismosoc.org.