NEOTECTONIC MOVEMENT AND THE TEMPORAL-SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF GEOLOGICAL DISASTERS IN CHINA CONTINENT

China is among the countries that have most serious geological disasters.The geological disasters wide-spread in China are of varied types and frequent occurrence, not only harming lives and properties of the people, but also deteriorating the natural resources and environment.The resulting losses have a wide profound influence on the social economy. Due to widely varied conditions of climate, landform, geological structure and social condition, there is considerable difference in their types, strength and destructiveness in different areas.Broadly we have two large hazard-striking regions, the east region and west region, which are divided into a number of subregions.Their occurrences are mostly found to be irregular cyclic and accumulative.In the future, the prevention and control of geological disasters will be a very arduous task over certain period of time.