The 2007 Talala, Saurashtra, western India earthquake sequence: Tectonic implications and seismicity triggering

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 303-314

  Yadav, R B S ^a   Papadimitriou, E E ^b   Karakostas, V G ^b   Shanker, D ^c   Rastogi, B K ^a   Chopra, S ^a   Singh, A P ^a   Kumar, Santosh ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Coulomb stress; India; Intraplate tectonics; Talala seismic sequence

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FORESHOCK; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; SEISMICITY; STRESS CHANGE;

GUJARAT; INDIA; SAURASHTRA;

EID: 78449312787     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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