Deepwater Geohazards in the South China Sea

Introduction.- Submarine landslide.- Natural gas hydrate disaster.- Shallow gas disaster.- Shallow water flow disaster.- Geological tsunami disaster.

Shiguo Wu is a professor at the Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his doctoral degree from China University of Geoscience (Wuhan) and University of Hamburg in Germany. He is also a professor and a doctoral supervisor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a distinguished professor of Taishan Scholars of Shandong Province and is at the first level of the "515 Talent Project" in Hainan Province. He is a recipient of State Council allowance and had been a mobile researcher at the Japan Science and Technology Department. He was awarded Special Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Hainan Province and Zhu LiYueHua Excellent Teacher Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the chairman of Geophysical Society of Hainan Province.

Sun Yunbao received his Ph.D. at the Institute of Oceanology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. He is currently an associated research professor with Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology, Qingao, China since 2011. His research interests and areas are numerical simulation of the overpressure in the deep-water and seismic imaging on unconsolidated sediments containing gas hydrate and shallow gas. And now he has published 20 papers on deepwater geohazards.

Li Qingping received a master's degree in fluid machinery from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1994 and a doctor's degree in mechanical design and theory from China University of Petroleum (Beijing) in 1998. She is the process chief engineer of the Technology Research Dept., CNOOC Research Institute Ltd., the executive deputy director of the Deepwater Engineering Key Laboratory, a national expert in the millions of talents project and a State Department special allowance expert. She is a senior expert in offshore engineering with more than 20 years of experience in offshore engineering design and research. She is mainly responsible for technical