Neotectonics & Earthquake Hazard Studies
Neotectonics and Earthquake Hazards
The Himalayan region is home to several megacities that hosts a major portion of the world's population. Collision-related seismicity across this region has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and catastrophic economic losses in this area. We are studying the neotectonics of several regions of the western Himalayas using InSAR and 2D seismic data.
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Publications
Karaca, S.O.; Abir, I.A.; Khan, S.D.; Ozsayın, E.; Qureshi, K.A. Neotectonics of the Western Suleiman Fold Belt, Pakistan: Evidence for Bookshelf Faulting. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 3593. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13183593
Qureshi, K. A.; **Khan, S. D. 2020. "Active Tectonics of the Frontal Himalayas: An Example from the Manzai Ranges in the Recess Setting, Western Pakistan" Remote Sens. 12, no. 20: 3362. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12203362
Crupa, W. E., Khan, S. D., Huang, J., Khan, A. S., Kasi, A., 2017. Active tectonic deformation of the western Indian plate boundary: A case study from the Chaman Fault System. Jour. of Asian Earth Sciences, 452-468, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.08.006
Abir, I. A., Khan, S. D., Ghulam, A., Tariq, S., Shah, M. T. 2015. Active Tectonics of Western Potwar Plateau-Salt Range, Northern Pakistan from InSAR Observations and Seismic Imaging, Remote Sensing of Environment, 168, 265-275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2015.07.011
Ul-Hadi, S., Khan, S. D., Owen, L. A., Khan, A. S., Hedrick, K. A., Caffee, M. W. 2013. Slip-rates along the Chaman fault: implication for transient strain accumulation and strain partitioning along the western Indian plate margin. Tectonophysics, 608, 389-400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2013.09.009