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Deng Qidong
Native Name:	邓起东
Native Name Lang:	zh
Birth Date:	January 1938
Birth Place:	Shuangfeng County, Hunan, China
Death Place:	301 Hospital, Beijing, China
Fields:	Earthquake
Workplaces:	Chinese Academy of Sciences
Alma Mater:	Central South University
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Deng Qidong (; January 1938 – 6 November 2018) was a Chinese geologist.^[1]

Biography

Deng was born in Shuangfeng County, Hunan in 1938. After graduating from the Central South University in 1961, he was assigned to the Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined the Chinese Communist Party on 25 May 1961. From February 1978 to March 1998 he worked in the China Earthquake Administration, where he was appointed director of Graduate Degree Committee of Geological Research Institute. In 2003 he was elected a fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He died of illness at Beijing 301 Hospital, in Beijing, on 6 November 2018.^{[2] [3]}

Papers

• Teng Chitung . Chang Yuming . Hsu Kweilin . Fan Futian . Tectonic Stress Field in China and its Relation to Plate Movement . Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors . 18 . 10.1016/0031-9201(79)90063-3. 1979 . 257–273 .
• Ma Xingyuan . Deng Qidong . The Characteristics of Seismisity and Seismotectonics in China . Revista Geofisica . 13 . 1980 . 61–82 .
• Deng Qidong . Jiang Pu . Lucile M. Jones . Peter Molnar . A Preliminary analysis of Reported The Seismotectonical changes in Ground Water and Anomalous Animal Behavior before the 4 February 1975 Haicheng Earthquake, Earthquake Prediction-An International Review . Maurice Ewing Series . 4 . 1981 . 543–565 .
• Ma Xingyuan . Deng Qidong . Wang Yipeng. Liu Hefu . Cenozoic Graben Systems in North China . Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie Supplementbände . 42 . 1982 . 99–116 .
• Zhang Weiqi . Deng Qidong . B. C. Burchfiel . Zhang Peizhen . Active Faulting and the formation of a Pullapart Basin along the Western Part of the Haiyuan fault, China, EOS, Trans . Am. Geophys. Union . 64 . 1983 . 861 .
• Deng Qidong . Kinematic Features and Slip Rates of Late Quaternary Active Faultings of Qinghai Xizang (Tibet) Plateau and Kinematic Characteristics of the Plateau and Secondary Blocks within it, Himalayan Geology International . 1984 .

Awards

• 1978 Second Prize of the State Scientific and Technological Progress Award

Notes and References

1. News: http://www.eq-igl.ac.cn/channels/3100.html . zh:沉痛悼念邓起东院士 . eq-igl.ac.cn . 13 November 2018 . zh.
2. News: http://news.sina.com.cn/o/2018-11-07/doc-ihmutuea7788076.shtml . zh:中国科学院院士地震地质学家邓起东逝世 享年81岁 . sina . 2018-11-07 . zh.
3. News: http://news.youth.cn/gn/201811/t20181107_11777540.htm . zh:中国科学院院士地震地质学者邓起东逝世 享年81岁 . youth.cn . 2018-11-07 . zh.