Seismicity in the Koyna-Warna reservoir site in western India: Fractal and b-value mapping

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 476-482

  Singh, Chandrani ^a   Bhattacharya, Pankaj Mala ^b   Chadha, R K ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; MAPPING; MAPS; SEISMIC WAVES; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

B-VALUE MAPPING; CONTOUR MAPS; SEISMICITY;

SEISMOLOGY;

CONTOUR MAP; CORRELATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; RESERVOIR-INDUCED SEISMICITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRESS FIELD;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; KOYNA; MAHARASHTRA; SOUTH ASIA; WARNA;

EID: 40549141839     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070165     Document Type: Article

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