Seismic study and spatial observations of a & b – values for the different earthquake hazard zones of India
Subject Areas :
Mineralogy
Narayanakumar Somasundaram
1
,
Surendra Nadh Somala
2
,
Evgenii Rogozhin
3
,
Svetlana Rodina
4
1 - Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India
2 - Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India
3 - Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
4 - Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Received: 2019-10-21
Accepted : 2020-10-02
Published : 2020-10-01
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