Statistical analysis on yearly seismic moment release data to demarcate the source zone for an impending earthquake in the Himalaya

Acta Geophysica

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 387-399

  Mukhopadhyay, Basab ^a   Acharyya, Anshuman ^a   Dasgupta, Sujit ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Himalaya; Hurst plot; Seismic moment; Time series

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENTS; FOLD-THRUST BELTS; HIGH MOMENTS; HIMALAYA; HURST ANALYSIS; HURST PLOT; NON-PARAMETRIC; NULL HYPOTHESIS; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC-MOMENT RELEASE; SOURCE ZONES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; Z VALUES;

EARTHQUAKES; METHOD OF MOMENTS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

TIME SERIES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMOTECTONICS; SOURCE PARAMETERS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS;

EID: 63649111997     PISSN: 18956572     EISSN: 18957455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11600-008-0068-0     Document Type: Article

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