The 2001 Mw 7.6 Bhuj earthquake, low fault friction, and the crustal support of plate driving forces in India

A Copley, JP Avouac, J Hollingsworth… - … Research: Solid Earth, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We present a source model for the 2001 Mw 7.6 Bhuj earthquake of northwest India. The slip
distribution suggests a high stress drop (∼ 35 MPa) and, together with the depth distribution …

The 2007 Talala, Saurashtra, western India earthquake sequence: tectonic implications and seismicity triggering

RBS Yadav, EE Papadimitriou, VG Karakostas… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2011 - Elsevier
A damaging and widely felt moderate (Mw 5.0) earthquake occurred in the Talala region of
Saurashtra, Gujarat (western India) on November 6, 2007. The highly productive sequence …

Active faulting in apparently stable peninsular India: Rift inversion and a Holocene‐age great earthquake on the Tapti Fault

A Copley, S Mitra, RA Sloan, S Gaonkar… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We present observations of active faulting within peninsular India, far from the surrounding
plate boundaries. Offset alluvial fan surfaces indicate one or more magnitude 7.6–8.4 thrust …

[HTML][HTML] Geomorphic signatures and active tectonics in western Saurashtra, Gujarat, India

B Mondal, M Biswas, S Mukherjee… - Geodesy and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Active tectonics in an area includes ongoing or recent geologic events. This paper
investigates the tectonic influence on the subsidence, uplift and tilt of western Saurashtra …

VS30 mapping and site characterization in the seismically active intraplate region of Western India: implications for risk mitigation

B Sairam, AP Singh, V Patel, S Chopra… - Near Surface …, 2019 - earthdoc.org
We carried out shallow subsurface investigations at 600 sites covering all types of
geological units in the Northwestern Deccan Volcanic Province of India, using the …

Estimation of Source Parameters, Quality Factor (QS), and Site Characteristics Using Accelerograms: Uttarakhand Himalaya Region

J Sharma, S Chopra, KS Roy - Bulletin of the …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A study of source, path, and site characteristics was conducted for the Uttarakhand Himalaya
region using accelerogram data from 15 earthquakes (ML≥ 3.5). These earthquakes were …

Occurrences of large-magnitude earthquakes in the Kachchh region, Gujarat, western India: Tectonic implications

PK Khan, SP Mohanty, S Sinha, D Singh - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
Moderate-to-large damaging earthquakes in the peninsular part of the Indian plate do not
support the long-standing belief of the seismic stability of this region. The historical record …

Seismic imaging of the 2001 Bhuj Mw7. 7 earthquake source zone: b-value, fractal dimension and seismic velocity tomography studies

P Mandal, MV Rodkin - Tectonophysics, 2011 - Elsevier
We use precisely located aftershocks of the 2001 Mw7. 7 Bhuj earthquake (2001–2009) to
explore the structure of the Kachchh seismic zone by mapping the 3-D distributions of b …

Source and attenuation properties of the 2012 Moe, southeastern Australia, earthquake sequence

R Hoult, T Allen, E Borleis, W Peck… - … Society of America, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The 19 June 2012 local magnitude ML 5.4 (M w 5.1) Moe earthquake, which occurred within
the Australian stable continental region, was the largest seismic event for the state of …

Comparison of earthquake source characteristics in the Kachchh Rift Basin and Saurashtra horst, Deccan Volcanic Province, western India

B Sairam, AP Singh, M Ravi Kumar - Journal of Earth System Science, 2018 - Springer
Seismic source parameters of small to moderate sized intraplate earthquakes that occurred
during 2002–2009 in the tectonic blocks of Kachchh Rift Basin (KRB) and the Saurashtra …