Relocation of earthquakes in the Northeast Indian region using joint hypocentre determination method

Current Science

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1404-1413

  Bhattacharya, Pankaj Mala ^a   Pujol, Jose ^b   Majumdar, R K ^c   Kayal, J R ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^c JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Joint hypocentre determination; Lateral velocity variation; Local earthquake tomography; Station correction

Indexed keywords

EID: 31944447344     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: 00113891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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