Tectonic imprints of landscape evolution in the Bhilangana and Mandakini basin, Garhwal Himalaya, India: a geospatial approach

AK Taloor, LM Joshi, BS Kotlia, A Alam… - Quaternary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Torrential rains, landslides, and seismic activity are the common factors that are causing
unprecedented damage to life, property and infrastructure in Mandakini and Bhilangana …

Active shortening within the Himalayan orogenic wedge implied by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake

KX Whipple, M Shirzaei, KV Hodges… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Models of Himalayan neotectonics generally attribute active mountain building to
slip on the Himalayan Sole Thrust, also termed the Main Himalayan Thrust, which …

Surface ruptures of the Iranian earthquakes 1900–2014: Insights for earthquake fault rupture hazards and empirical relationships

MR Ghassemi - Earth-science reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
A database of Iranian earthquakes during the instrumental period (1900–2014) is used to
analyze geometric and kinematic aspects of the surface ruptures in different seismotectonic …

Shear wave crustal velocity structure in the Garhwal-Kumaon Himalaya based on noise cross-correlation of Rayleigh wave

SK Verma, N Kumar, D Hazarika, A Paul, DK Yadav… - Tectonophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
The tectonics of the Garwal-Kumaon Himalaya is characterized by thrusts, tectonic windows,
and klippen. We investigate crustal shear wave velocity variations using ambient noise cross …

Seismotectonics and crustal stress field in the Kumaon–Garhwal Himalaya

P Mahesh, S Gupta, U Saikia, SS Rai - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
We present fault plane solutions of 94 well located small-to-moderate sized (1.5≤ ML≤ 5.4)
earthquakes, which occurred in the Kumaon–Garhwal Himalaya during 2005–2008, using P …

Upper crustal stress and seismotectonics of the Garhwal Himalaya using small-to-moderate earthquakes: implications to the local structures and free fluids

RA Prasath, A Paul, S Singh - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
The work presents new focal-mechanism data of small-to-moderate (3.0⩾ ML⩽ 5.0) upper
crustal earthquakes for the Garhwal Himalaya from a local seismic network installed in July …

Crustal velocity structure and earthquake processes of Garhwal-Kumaun Himalaya: Constraints from regional waveform inversion and array beam modeling

SS Negi, A Paul, S Cesca, M Kriegerowski, P Mahesh… - Tectonophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
In order to understand present day earthquake kinematics at the Indian plate boundary, we
analyse seismic broadband data recorded between 2007 and 2015 by the regional network …

Stress regimes in the Himalaya–Karakoram–Tibet, the western part of India–Eurasia collision: stress field implications based on focal mechanism solution data

VG Babu, N Kumar, SK Pal - Geophysical Journal International, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The stress regime patterns of high-seismically active regions within the western part of the
India–Eurasia collision, spanning from 67° E to 83° E and 27° N to 39° N, are elucidated …

Multi-Parameter Geophysical Observatory: gateway to integrated earthquake precursory research

BR Arora, G Rawat, N Kumar, VM Choubey - Current Science, 2012 - JSTOR
To study earthquake precursors in an integrated manner, India's first Multi-Parameter
Geophysical Observatory (MPGO) has been established at Ghuttu, Central Himalaya. The …

Crustal velocity structure and seismotectonics of the Kinnaur region of northwest Himalaya: New constraints based on recent micro-earthquake data

DN Yadav, N Kumar, VG Babu, R Kumari… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2022 - Elsevier
The occurrence of micro-earthquakes is monitored in the Kinnaur region of NW Himalaya
using a local seismograph network of 12 broadband stations. About 800 micro-earthquakes …