Seismotectonic model of the Kangra-Chamba sector of Northwest Himalaya: Constraints from joint hypocenter determination and focal mechanism

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 95-109

  Kumar, Naresh ^a   Sharma, Jyoti ^a   Arora, B R ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Sagarika ^b  

^a WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; EARTHQUAKES; ELASTICITY; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; STRAIN;

DEPTH DISTRIBUTIONS; DIGITAL SEISMOMETERS; FAULT MOVEMENTS; FOCAL MECHANISMS; INDIAN PLATES; LOW-VELOCITY LAYERS; MAIN BOUNDARY THRUSTS; METAMORPHOSED SEDIMENTS; NORTHWEST HIMALAYA; SEISMIC EVENTS; SEISMOTECTONIC; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SOURCE REGIONS; STUDY AREAS; THICK LAYERS; THREE COMPONENTS; TIME DISTANCES; VELOCITY MODELS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

COLLISION ZONE; DETACHMENT FAULT; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; FOCAL MECHANISM; INDIAN PLATE; REVERSE FAULT; SEISMICITY; SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOTECTONICS; TRAVEL TIME;

ASIA; CHAMBA; EURASIA; HIMACHAL PRADESH; INDIA; KANGRA; SOUTH ASIA;

LEUCAENA TRICHODES;

EID: 60749134019     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080220     Document Type: Article

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