| Session Details | |
| Section | SE - Solid Earth Sciences HS - Hydrological Sciences |
| Session Title | Earthquake Hydrology and Hydroseismology |
| Main Convener | Prof. Harsh Gupta (Raja Ramanna Fellow, National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), India) |
| Co-convener(s) | Prof. Fuqiong Huang (China Earthquake Network Center, China) Prof. Allu Narayana (Cochin University of Science & Technologyics, India) |
| Session Description | Changes in groundwater levels, stream flow, anomalous water chemistry, and levated temperatures have been observed before and after earthquakes in seismically active areas. Reservoir induced earthquakes (RIE) have been reported though the large reservoirs had been built in low seismic area. The processes of groundwater’s responsible for the observed anomalies and RIE for impounding water are complex, involving interactions among crustal deformation, seismic shaking, permeability enhancement, fluid flow, chemical transport, and heat transfer. Understanding these coupled processes is of great interest and importance to continuing efforts in recognizing earthquake precursors, predicting aftershocks, and lessening devastating consequences of earthquakes. This session involves the interdisciplinary of hydrology and seismology and aims at providing an forum to exchange research ideas and results related to physical and chemical processes of fluid flow in seismically active areas in either terrestrial or marine settings, and areas with large reservoirs. Sharing information and field observations at the forum will greatly promote interdisciplinary research and help to efficiently utilize existing data from many different regions. Topics of interests include, but not limited to, (1) Reviews and new definitions for earthquake hydrology and hydroseismology (2) Field observations and site-specific studies (3) Experiments and theoretical or numerical modeling of the coupled processes (4) Hydrological changes before and after the 2004 and 2005 Sumatra earthquakes |