Results from local earthquake velocity tomography: Implications toward the source process involved in generating the 2001 Bhuj earthquake in the lower crust beneath Kachchh (India)

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 633-649

  Mandal, Prantik ^a   Rastogi, B K ^a   Satyanarayana, H V S ^a   Kousalya, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STRESSES; TOMOGRAPHY;

26 JANUARY 2001 BHUJ EARTHQUAKE; INTRAPLATE AREA; SEISMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS;

EARTHQUAKES;

BHUJ EARTHQUAKE 2001; DATA INVERSION; FOCAL MECHANISM; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC HAZARD; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

ASIA; EURASIA; GUJARAT; INDIA; KUTCH; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 2542522330     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030056     Document Type: Article

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