A new insight into crustal heterogeneity beneath the 2001 Bhuj earthquake region of Northwest India and its implications for rupture initiations

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue , 2012, Pages 31-42

  Singh, A P ^a   Mishra, O P ^b,c   Yadav, R B S ^d   Kumar, Dinesh ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

^c SAARC Disaster Management Centre   (India)

^d INDIAN NATIONAL CENTRE FOR OCEAN INFORMATION SERVICES   (India)

^e KURUKSHETRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Earthquake hazard; Frequency magnitude distribution; Heterogeneity; Seismic tomography; The 2001 Bhuj earthquake

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRACK; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GUJARAT EARTHQUAKE 2001; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HETEROGENEITY; POISSON RATIO; ROCK MASS RESPONSE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAPH; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

INDIA;

EID: 84863393233     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.12.020     Document Type: Article

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