Paleoseismic evidence of a giant medieval earthquake in the eastern Himalaya

Abstract We present here the results of a paleoseismic investigation carried across a ~10 m high fault scarp at Panijhora village, West Bengal in northeastern India. Accelerator Mass Spectrometer analyzed 14C radiocarbon age constraints from six detrital charcoal samples ranging between 1688 B.C. an...

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Main Authors: Rajeeb Lochan Mishra, I. Singh, A. Pandey, P. S. Rao, H. K. Sahoo, R. Jayangondaperumal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-06-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL068739
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