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- Title
Source Parameters and High Frequency Characteristics of Local Events (0.5 ≤ M ≤ 2.9) Around Bilaspur Region of the Himachal Himalaya.
- Authors
Vandana; Kumar, Ashwani; Gupta, S.; Mishra, O.; Kumar, Arjun; Sandeep
- Abstract
Source parameters of 41 local events (0.5 ≤ M ≤ 2.9) occurred around Bilaspur region of the Himachal Lesser Himalaya from May 2013 to March 2014 have been estimated adopting Brune model. The estimated source parameters include seismic moments ( M ), source radii ( r), and stress drops (Δ σ), and found to vary from 4.9 × 10 to 7 × 10 dyne-cm, about 187-518 m and less than 1 bar to 51 bars, respectively. The decay of high frequency acceleration spectra at frequencies above f has been modelled using two functions: a high-cut filter and κ factor. Stress drops of 11 events, with M between 1 × 10 and 7 × 10 dyne-cm, vary from 11 bars to 51 bars with an average of 22 bars. From the variation of the maximum stress drop with focal depth it appears that the strength of the upper crust decreases below 20 km. A scaling law M = 2 × 10 f between M , and corner frequency (f ), has been developed for the region. This law almost agrees with that for the Kameng region of the Arunachal Lesser Himalaya. f is found to be source dependent whereas f is source independent and seems to indicate that the size of the cohesive zone is not sensitive to the earthquake size. At four sites f is found to vary from 14 to 23, 11 to 19, 9 to 23 and 4 to 11 Hz, respectively. The κ is found to vary from 0.01 to 0.035 s with an average of 0.02 s. This range of variation is a large compared to the κ variation between 0.023 and 0.07 s for the Garhwal and Kumaon Himalaya. For various regions of the world, the κ varies over a broad range from 0.003 to 0.08 s, and for the Bilaspur region the κ estimates are found to be consistent with other regions of the world.
- Publication
Pure & Applied Geophysics, 2017, Vol 174, Issue 4, p1643
- ISSN
0033-4553
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1007/s00024-017-1493-2