Triggered/migrated seismicity due to the 2001 M w 7.7 Bhuj earthquake, Western India

B. Rastogi, Sandeep Aggrawal, Nagabhushan Rao and Pallabee Choudhury ()

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2013, vol. 65, issue 2, 1085-1107

Abstract: Paper describes triggered seismicity to 200 km distance and for a decade due to the 2001 M w 7.7 Bhuj earthquake. The Kachchh region is seismically one of the most active intraplate regions of the World due to the occurrence of two large earthquakes 1819 (M w 7.8) and 2001 (M w 7.7). Though, it has high hazard but was known to have low seismicity in view of the occurrence of fewer smaller shocks. However, the status seems to have changed after 2001. Besides the strong aftershock activity for over a decade, seismicity has spread to nearby faults in Kachchh peninsula and at several places southward for 200 km distance in Saurashtra peninsula. Beyond the rupture zone of the 2001 Bhuj earthquake, more than 40 mainshocks of M w ~ 3–5 have occurred at 20 different locations, which is unusual. The increased seismicity is inferred to be caused by stress perturbation due to the 2001 Bhuj earthquake by viscoelastic process. In Saurashtra, over and above the viscoelastic stress increase, the transient stress increase by water table rise in monsoons seems to be affecting the timing of mainshocks and associated sequences of earthquakes. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013

Keywords: Triggered seismicity; Migrated seismicity; Bhuj earthquake (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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