Seasonal bias for the occurrence of shallow-focus earthquakes in the Indian tropics

Indian Minerals

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 327-332

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

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Dilatancy diffusion model; Indian subcontinent; Pore pressure; Rainwater; Seasonal variation; Shallow focus earthquake

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION MECHANISMS; DIFFUSION MODEL; DILATANCY-DIFFUSION MODEL; EARTH'S ROTATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GRAVITATIONAL PULL; PHASE LAGS; PRESSURE PERTURBATION; RAINY SEASONS; SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEISMOGENIC FAULTS; VOLUME DILATANCY;

DIFFUSION; PORE PRESSURE;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTH ROTATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT ZONE; INFILTRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; PORE PRESSURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEISMICITY; SURFACE WATER;

INDIA;

EID: 77953353130     PISSN: 00195936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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