Seismic hazard map of Coimbatore using subsurface fault rupture

Natural Hazards

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1325-1345

  Anbazhagan, Panjamani ^a   Gajawada, Prabhu ^b   Parihar, Aditya ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

DSHA; PGA; Rupture length; Seismic hazard

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK ACCELERATION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOTECTONICS;

COIMBATORE; INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 84855323221     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9915-4     Document Type: Article

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