The 2004 sumatra - andaman earthquake sequence and its implications for seismic coupling: future Vulnerability

Indian Minerals

Volumn 61, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 93-112

  Ghosh, D ^a   Mishra, O P ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Cmt solutions; Focal process; Seismic vulnerability; Serpentinisation; Slip; Strain partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951452099     PISSN: 00195936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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