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