Potential source zones for Himalayan earthquakes: Constraints from spatial-temporal clusters

Natural Hazards

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 369-383

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

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Characteristic earthquake; Earthquake; Fault interaction; Himalayas; Rupture; Seismic quiescence; Spatio temporal clusters

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; COLLISION ZONE; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; OROGENY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC QUIESCENCE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

BHUTAN; CHINA; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; NEPAL; PAKISTAN;

EID: 79955523767     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9618-2     Document Type: Article

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