Clustering of earthquake events in the Himalaya- Its relevance to regional tectonic set-up

Gondwana Research

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1242-1247

  Mukhopadhyay, Basab ^a   Dasgupta, Sabyasachi ^a   Dasgupta, Sujit ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Hurst phenomena; Poisson probability; Recurrence; Temporal and spatial cluster

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; DISCONTINUITY; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECTONIC SETTING; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA; NEPAL; UTTARAKHAND;

EID: 5444244856     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)71099-6     Document Type: Article

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