Killari Earthquake, 30 September 1993

Contents: 1. Introduction/P.L. Narula. 2. Geotectonic setting and seismicity of the area/P.L. Narula, J.R. Kayal, Prabhas Pande, S.K. Gupta, N.V. Venkataraman, N. Maran and L. Harendranath. 3. Macroseismic surveys/P.L. Narula, Prabhas Pande, S.K. Gupta, S.R. Pradhan, B. Venkataramana, N.V. Venkataraman, N. Maran, A.E. Karve, N.B.G. Tilak, M. Chakradhar, L. Harendranath, K.T. Vidyadharan and V. Sundaram. 4. Geotechnical assessment of isoseists/P.L. Narula, Prabhas Pande, S.K. Gupta, N.V. Venkataraman and L. Harendranath. 5. Aftershock monitoring and focal mechanism studies/J.R. Kayal, Reena De, B. Das and S.N. Chowdhury. 6. Tectonic flux studies from aftershock data/P.L. Narula, Prabhas Pande, K.C. Joshi and Jaya Singh. 7. Gravity, magnetic and resistivity investigations around Killari/M. Appa Rao, C.B.K. Sastry and R. Ananda Reddy. 8. Gravity, magnetic, deep resistivity and palaeomagnetic investigations along Kurduvadi - Latur section, Maharashtra/K.V.S. Bhaskara Rao, K. Venkata Rao, K.J. Rao and K.V. Satyanarayana. 9. Repeat gravity measurements of upper mantle gravity stations in Latur and Osmanabad districts and adjoining areas/D. Ghosh and P. Chakraborti. 10. Microgravity measurements/T.K. Ghatak. 11. Synthesis of the geophysical studies/B.S.R. Murty. 12. Seismotectonics and source mechanism/P.L. Narula and Prabhas Pande. 13. Rehabilitation proposals and identification of future studies/P.L. Narula. Epilogue. References. Annexures.

From the foreword: "Killari (Latur) earthquake of September 30, 1993 was one of the deadliest stable continental intraplate events which took heavy toll of life and property and jolted the scientific community once again, after the Koyna event, regarding the stability of the peninsular shield. Major part of peninsular India was thought to be generally aseismogenic except in certain domains like the Cambay graben, the West coast, the Son-Narmada tectonic belt and the Mesozoic Gondwana grabens. The Killari earthquake defied all these presumptions and necessitated relook into the seismotectonics of this region.

"This publication presents immense amount of data generated by the Survey, aiming at the understanding of the source mechanism of the event. It is unique in the sense that it collated and synthesises the multidisciplinary database and attempts in the integration of the geological inputs with the geophysical inferences."