Seismic cluster analysis for the Burmese-Andaman and West Sunda Arc: Insight into subduction kinematics and seismic potentiality

Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 283-314

  Mukhopadhyay, Basab ^a   Fnais, M ^b   Mukhopadhyay, Manoj ^b   Dasgupta, Sujit ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMT SOLUTIONS; FOCAL DEPTH; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN PLATE; LINEAR FRACTALS; POINT DENSITY; REGIONAL TECTONICS; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SEISMIC ZONES; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; STATISTICAL FUNCTIONS; STRESS AXES; SUNDA ARC;

EARTHQUAKES; FRACTALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TECTONICS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 79958726502     PISSN: 19475705     EISSN: 19475713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19475705.2010.494014     Document Type: Article

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