Seismicity, source parameters and scaling relationships for the eastern part of eastern Indian shield region

Indian Minerals

Volumn 61, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 65-74

  Khan, Prosanta Kumar ^a   Chakraborty, Shantanu ^a   Srivastava, V K ^a   Prasad, Rajkumar ^a  

^a INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

Author keywords

Eastern indian shield; Microearthquakes; Scaling relationship; Seismicity; Source parameters

Indexed keywords

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 77951496521     PISSN: 00195936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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