Seismic tomography structure of the 1999 Chamoli earthquake source area in the Garhwal Himalaya

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1854-1861

  Mukhopadhyay, S ^a   Kayal, J R ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; SEDIMENTS; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

AFTERSHOCKS;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TECTONIC SETTING;

GARHWAL HIMALAYA; HIMALAYAS; INDIA;

EID: 0242274232     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120020130     Document Type: Article

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