Aftershock investigation in the Andaman-Nicobar Islands of India and its seismotectonic implications

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 1 A SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Mishra, O P ^a,b   Kayal, J R ^a   Chakrabortty, G K ^a   Singh, O P ^a   Ghosh, D ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; COMPRESSIVE STRESS; EARTHQUAKES; FRICTION; SEISMOGRAPHS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

AFTERSHOCK; COMPRESSIVE FORCE; DIGITAL SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOTECTONICS; THRUST FAULT;

SEISMOLOGY;

AFTERSHOCK; CREEP; FAULT SLIP; FOCAL MECHANISM; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; P-WAVE; RUPTURE; SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; TENSION;

ANDAMANS; ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; NICOBARS; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34250020452     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050629     Document Type: Article

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