Evidence of strain accumulation in the Andaman region for the Giant 2004 Sumatra Andaman earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 587-591

  Catherine, Joshi K ^a   Gahalaut, Vineet K ^a   Srinivas, N ^a   Kumar, Subhash ^b   Nagarajan, B ^c  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Automotive India Pvt Ltd   (India)

^c Survey of India   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRONTAL ARC; GPS DATA; LAND SUBSIDENCE; STRAIN ACCUMULATIONS; SUMATRA-ANDAMAN EARTHQUAKE; THRUST ZONE; TIDE GAUGE DATA;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EARTHQUAKES;

GPS; SEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; STRAIN; SUBSIDENCE; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; TIDE GAUGE;

ANDAMANS; ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS; INDIA;

EID: 84893219942     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120130141     Document Type: Article

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