Study of Aftershocks of the Bhuj Earthquake by Japanese Research Team (BHUJ2)
| Contact: |
Hiroaki Negishi |
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| Phone: | +81 298-51-1611 (ext. 631) |
| Fax: | +81 298-54-0629 |
| Address: | National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan |
| Status: | Not reporting |
| Last data: | 2001-03-06 |
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| Publications: | Negishi,H.,J.Mori,T.Sato,R.Singh,S.Kumar and N.Hirata, 2002. Size and Orientation of the Fault Plane for the 2001 Gujarat, India Earthquake (Mw7.7) from Aftershock Observations: A High Stress Drop Event, Geophys.Res.Lett., in press |
| Description: | With a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Monbu-Kagaku-sho (Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), a research team was formed and dispatched to Gujarat for investigating seismological aspects of this earthquake and evaluating the earthquake damage. The team consisted of eighteen members including four Indian researchers. A list of the members is shown below. The research team set four main targets for the investigations, i.e., (1) search for surface faults associated with the earthquake, (2) aftershock observation for determining the configuration of the main-shock fault, (3) GPS monitoring of post-seismic crustal deformation, and (4) evaluation of casualties and damage to buildings and lifelines. The field survey was carried out from 18 February to 13 March, about a month after the earthquake occurred. |
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