Role of crustal heterogeneity beneath Andaman-Nicobar Islands and its implications for coastal hazard

Natural Hazards

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-64

  Mishra, O P ^a,e   Zhao, D ^b   Ghosh, Chandan ^c   Wang, Z ^d   Singh, O P ^a   Ghosh, Biman ^a   Mukherjee, K K ^a   Saha, D K ^a   Chakrabortty, G K ^a   Gaonkar, S G ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c National Institute of Disaster Management   (India)

^d Chengdu Institute of Technology   (China)

^e SAARC Disaster Management Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Andaman Nicobar Islands; Coastal hazard; Crustal heterogeneity; Seismic imaging; Tsunamis

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; COASTAL ZONE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GEODYNAMICS; HETEROGENEITY; IMAGING METHOD; NATURAL HAZARD; P-WAVE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; TSUNAMI;

ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS; INDIA;

EID: 79955524479     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9678-3     Document Type: Article

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