Are the 7 March 2006 Mw 5.6 event and the 3 February 2006 Mw 4.58 event triggered by the five years continued occurrence of aftershocks of the 2001 Mw 7.7 Bhuj event?

Current Science

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1114-1124

  Mandal, Prantik ^a   Chadha, R K ^a   Raju, I P ^a   Kumar, N ^a   Satyamurty, C ^a   Narsaiah, R ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Aftershocks; b value; GEDI Fault; Island Belt Fault; p value

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248326421     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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