Earthquake occurrence processes in the Indo-Burmese wedge and Sagaing fault region

Tectonophysics

Volumn 524-525, Issue , 2012, Pages 135-146

  Kundu, Bhaskar ^a   Gahalaut, V K ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Earthquake focal mechanisms; Indo Burmese wedge; Intra slab earthquakes; Sagaing fault; Seismogenesis

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; BANGLADESH; DEPTH RANGE; EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISMS; FAULT REGION; FOCAL MECHANISM; GREAT EARTHQUAKE; HISTORICAL RECORDS; INDIAN PLATE; INDO-BURMESE WEDGE; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; INTERPLATE EARTHQUAKES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE INTERFACES; PLATE MOTIONS; RELATIVE MOTION; SAGAING FAULT; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SEISMOGENESIS; SENSE OF MOTION; STRESS STATE; STRIKE-SLIP MOTION; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TREND SURFACE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; FAULT SLIPS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; DISCONTINUITY; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT; FOCAL MECHANISM; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; SEISMICITY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TREND ANALYSIS;

INDO-BURMA; MYANMAR; SAGAING;

EID: 84856743667     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.12.031     Document Type: Article

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