TY - CHAP AU - Yunsheng Wang AU - Runqiu Huang AU - Yonghong Luo AU - Hongbiao Xu AU - Shitian Wang AU - Liangwen Jiang AU - Yusheng Li ED - Sebastiano D'Amico Y1 - 2012-02-08 PY - 2012 T1 - Tectonic Background of the Wenchuan Earthquake N2 - This book is devoted to different aspects of earthquake research. Depending on their magnitude and the placement of the hypocenter, earthquakes have the potential to be very destructive. Given that they can cause significant losses and deaths, it is really important to understand the process and the physics of this phenomenon. This book does not focus on a unique problem in earthquake processes, but spans studies on historical earthquakes and seismology in different tectonic environments, to more applied studies on earthquake geology. BT - Earthquake Research and Analysis SP - Ch. 11 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/27587 DO - 10.5772/27587 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -