Earthquake swarm activities after rains in peninsular India and a case study rom Jamnagar

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 245-252

  Chopra, Sumer ^a   Madhusudhan Rao, K ^a   Sairam, B ^a   Kumar, Santosh ^a   Gupta, A K ^a   Patel, Hardik ^a   Gadhavi, M S ^a   Rastogi, B K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Saurashtra seismicity; Subterranean sounds; Swarm type of earthquakes

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; FOCAL MECHANISM; RAINFALL; SEISMICITY; TECTONIC SETTING;

ASIA; EURASIA; GUJARAT; INDIA; JAMNAGAR; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 54249139278     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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