Orogens that form at convergent plate boundaries typically consist of accreted rock units that form an incomplete archive of subducted oceanic and continental lithosphere, as well as of …
GC Kothyari, RK Dumka, S Chopra, KD Singh… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2023 - Elsevier
The seismically active Saurashtra horst is located within the intraplate volcanic continental margin of western India. The region is prone to moderate and low-magnitude earthquakes …
B Shan, X Xiong, R Wang, Y Zheng… - Geophysical Journal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The East Kunlun Fault zone, striking E–W to WNW–ESE, has been recognized as one of the largest and most active left-lateral strike-slip faults in the China continent …
A damaging and widely felt moderate earthquake (Mw 6.4) hit the rural, mountainous region of southwestern Pakistan on October 28, 2008. The main shock was followed by another …
We analyze paleostress from a region in SW Saurashtra (India) using three free software, T- Tecto, WinTensor and FaultKin based on attitudes of∼ EW trending, sub-vertical, brittle fault …
Damaging earthquakes result from the evolution of stress in the brittle upper-crust, but the understanding of the mechanics of faulting cannot be achieved by only studying the large …
Economic importance of major ports is well known, and if ports are located in seismically active regions, then site-specific seismic hazard studies are essential to mitigate the seismic …
Y Bayrak, RBS Yadav, D Kalafat, TM Tsapanos… - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
A unique and very interesting earthquake of magnitude Mw 7.2 occurred in the Van region of Turkey on October 23, 2011 that caused a heavy loss of human lives and properties. The …
J Shukla, D Choudhury - Natural Hazards and Earth System …, 2012 - nhess.copernicus.org
A deterministic seismic hazard analysis has been carried out for various sites of the major cities (Ahmedabad, Surat, Bhuj, Jamnagar and Junagadh) of the Gujarat region in India to …