Kashmir Valley megaearthquakes

American Scientist

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-49

  Hough, Susan ^a   Bilham, Roger ^b,c   Bhat, Ismail ^d  

^a USGS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; GROUND MOTION; POPULATION GROWTH; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; KASHMIR VALLEY; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 58149522653     PISSN: 00030996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1511/2009.76.42     Document Type: Article

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