Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Chapter 1: Introduction (this section will include the geodynamical and plate tectonic aspects of the evolution of the India, Himalayan collision zone and Andaman subduction zone and their bearing on the generation of earthquakes.
Chapter 2; Seismological concepts and global seismological research; types of earthquakes: intraplate, interplate and plate boundary earthquakes and the typical examples in India
Historical Earthquakes
Chapter 3: Uttarkashi, 1803
Chapter 4: Kachchh, 1819
Chapter 5: Shillong, 1897
Chapter 6: Kangra, 1905
Chapter 7: Nepal-Bihar, 1934
Chapter 8: Upper Assam, 1950
Modern Earthquakes
Chapter 9: Koyna, 1967
Chapter 10: Killari, 1993
Chapter 11: Jabalpur, 1997
Chapter 12: Bhuj, 2001
Chapter 13: Sumatra-Andaman, 2004
Chapter 14: Kashmir, 2005
Chapter 15: Nepal, 2015
Chapter 16: Future Hazard Scenario
Synopsis
Compilation of recent and historic earthquakes in the Indian subcontinent
Highlights the tectonic relation of historic and recent earthquakes in the region
Includes seismotectonics and mechanisms of each earthquake from the region