Source Parameters of 1<sup>st</sup> April 2015 Chamoli Earthquake (Mw 4.8) vis-í -vis Seismotectonics of the Region
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Geoscience/Seismology Division, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Prithvi Bhavan, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003
Mithila Verma -
Geoscience/Seismology Division, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Prithvi Bhavan, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003
Anup K. Sutar
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Geoscience/Seismology Division, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Prithvi Bhavan, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003
B. K. Bansal
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-017-0636-5Abstract
The paper presents a detailed analysis of 1st April 2015 earthquake, whose epicenter (30.16° N, 79.28° E) was located near Simtoli village of Chamoli district, Uttarakhand. The focal depth is refined to 7 km by the grid search technique using moment tensor inversion. The source parameters of the earthquake as estimated by spectral analysis method suggested the source radius of ~1.0 km, seismic moment as 1.99E+23 dyne-cm with moment magnitude (Mw) of 4.8 and stress drop of 69 bar. The fault plane solution inferred using full waveform inversion indicated two nodal planes, the northeast dipping plane having strike 334° and dip 5° and the southwest dipping plane with dip 86° and strike 118°. The parallelism of the nodal plane striking 334° with dip 5° as indicated in depth cross sections of the tectonic elements suggested the north dipping Main Boundary Thrust (MBT) to be the causative fault for this earthquake. Spatio-temporal distribution of earthquakes during the period 1960-2015 showed seismic quiescence during 2006-2010 and migration of seismicity towards south.
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