The 1993 Killari earthquake in central India: A new fault in Mesozoic basalt flows?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 8543-8560

  Seeber, Leonardo ^a   Ekström, Goran ^b   Jain, Sudhir K ^c   Murty, C V R ^c   Chandak, Navin ^c   Armbruster, John G ^a  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT; INTRAPLATE EARTHQUAKE; KILLARI EARTHQUAKE 1993; SEISMOGENIC FAULT;

INDIA, DECCAN TRAPS; INDIA, MAHARASHTRA, KILLARI;

EID: 0029731376     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95jb01865     Document Type: Article

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