Fractal and b-value mapping in eastern Himalaya and southern Tibet

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3529-3533

  Singh, Chandrani ^a   Singh, Arun ^a   Chadha, R K ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SEISMIC; B VALUE; COLLISION ZONE; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; HIMALAYAS; SEISMIC STATION; SOUTHERN TIBET; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; STRUCTURAL VARIABILITY;

SEISMOLOGY;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

COLLISION ZONE; CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; MAPPING METHOD; REGIONAL METAMORPHISM;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HIMALAYAS; XIZANG;

EID: 70450212109     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090041     Document Type: Article

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