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Digital Seismic Network:To Map Himalayan Orogen and Seismic Hazard


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According to the Gutenberg–Richter law1, at least one earthquake of magnitude greater than 7 occurs every month along the seismically active belts in the world. Earthquakes are the manifestation of fault slip at depths, thus, there is no direct method to measure or observe them. However, seismometers can record ground velocity or acceleration caused by the occurrence of an earthquake when a fault slip occurs at depth. Therefore, setting up a seismic network is inevitable to understand the physics of earthquake processes, thereby, mitigating earthquake hazard.
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D. Srinagesh
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500 007, India
Prantik Mandal
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500 007, India
R. Vijaya Raghavan
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500 007, India
Sandeep Gupta
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500 007, India
G. Suresh
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500 007, India
D. Srinivas
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500 007, India
Satish Saha
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500 007, India
M. Sekhar
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500 007, India
K. Sivaram
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500 007, India
Sudesh Kumar
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500 007, India
P. Solomon Raju
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500 007, India
A. N. S. Sarma
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500 007, India
Y. V. V. S. B. Murthy
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500 007, India
N. K. Borah
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500 007, India
B. Naresh
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500 007, India
B. N. V. Prasad
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500 007, India
V. M. Tiwari
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500 007, India

Abstract


According to the Gutenberg–Richter law1, at least one earthquake of magnitude greater than 7 occurs every month along the seismically active belts in the world. Earthquakes are the manifestation of fault slip at depths, thus, there is no direct method to measure or observe them. However, seismometers can record ground velocity or acceleration caused by the occurrence of an earthquake when a fault slip occurs at depth. Therefore, setting up a seismic network is inevitable to understand the physics of earthquake processes, thereby, mitigating earthquake hazard.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv116%2Fi4%2F518-519