2009 Annual Meeting of National Key Basic Research and Development Plan of China (973 Program) “Mechanism and Risk Control of Secondary Mountain Hazards Induced by 5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake” held in Chengdu on November 23rd, 2009.

Experts agree that this project has collected a great mass of image and date in earthquake area, carried out extensive investigation, prototype monitoring, remote sensing survey, simulation experiment, large-scale shaking table model test and numerical simulation experiment. This project made important progress in the research for mechanism of landslide and rock fall hazards induced by coseismic earthquake, distribution of secondary mountain hazards induced by earthquake, potential hazards judge method, risk analyze and mapping and disaster reduction. By now, this group has published 72 papers and 10 patents. Experts hope that the achievements of this project could be applied in the post-earthquake reconstructions.  

After the meeting, experts visited an observation experiment base in Beichuan County.

This project was host by Chengdu Institute of Mountain Hazard and Environment (IMHE), CAS. Experts from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), CAS, and Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province attend the meeting.