Eight days in Bhuj: Field report bearing on surface rupture and genesis of the 26 January 2001 earthquake in India

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 514-524

  Wesnousky, Steven G ^a   Seeber, Leonardo ^b   Rockwell, Thomas K ^d   Thakur, Vikram ^c   Briggs, Richard ^a   Kumar, Senthil ^a   Ragona, Daniel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0038536098     PISSN: 00128287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.72.5.514     Document Type: Article

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