Flexure of the Indian plate and intraplate earthquakes

Bilham, Roger; Bendick, Rebecca; Wallace, K.

doi:10.1007/bf02709259

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“…It actually reduces the normal stress from the fault, thereby facilitating slip in the direction of the shear stress. Bilham et al (2003) used a similar model and attributed the occurrence of intra-plate earthquakes of the Indian plate to flexure induced by the Himalaya and Tibet.…”

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Role of flexure in earthquake triggering along the Western Ghat escarpment, India

Catherine

Gahalaut

2007

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

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Role of flexure in earthquake triggering along the Western Ghat escarpment, India

Catherine

Gahalaut

2007

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

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“…The maximum rates of change are slow e.g. 1 bar per millennium (Bilham et al 2003). Earthquakes have been known to be triggered by a few bars of additional stress.…”

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The seismic future of cities

Bilham

2009

Bull Earthquake Eng

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The final projected doubling in Earth's population in the next half century, requires an additional 1 billion housing units, more dwellings constructed in a single generation than at any time in Earth's history. Earth's tenfold increase in population has occurred during a time that is short compared to the return time of damaging earthquakes. In the next century, therefore, earthquakes that had little impact on villages and towns, will be shaking urban agglomerations housing upwards of 12 million people. An epicentral hit on a megacity has the potential to cause 1 million fatalities. The incorporation of earthquake resistant structures in the current global building boom, despite successes in the developed nations, has been neglected in the developing nations where historically earthquake damage has been high. The reasons for this neglect are attributed to indifference, ignorance and corrupt practices, not due to an absence of engineering competence. Never has a generation of earthquake engineers been faced with such a grave responsibility to exercise their skills, both political and technical, as now.

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“…1a) leading many authors to consider it to be a mantle event (e.g., Pandey et al, 1999) however, some debated it to be a crustal one (Maggi et al, 2000;Bilham et al, 2003). This earthquake is analyzed using teleseismic waveform modeling in this paper assuming it to be an intraplate earthquake.…”

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