A ninth century earthquake-induced landslide and flood in the Kashmir Valley, and earthquake damage to Kashmir’s Medieval temples

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 79-109

  Bilham, Roger ^a   Bali, Bikram Singh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR   (India)

Author keywords

Archaeological damage; Earthquake induced floods; Historical earthquakes; Landslides; Medieval Kashmir

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; EARTHQUAKES; LANDFORMS; LANDSLIDES; LIME;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGES; EARTHQUAKE-INDUCED LANDSLIDES; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; MEDIEVAL KASHMIR; NATURAL DAM; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UNCEMENTED;

FLOODS;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; COLLAPSE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOOD WAVE; FLOW MODELING; HISTORICAL RECORD; INDUCED SEISMICITY; LANDSLIDE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

INDIA; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; KASHMIR VALLEY;

EID: 85027945641     PISSN: 1570761X     EISSN: 15731456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10518-013-9504-x     Document Type: Article

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