Roger Bilham: Publications on Indian Tectonics 1984- 2012
1. Bilham, R. and D.
Simpson, Indo-Asian convergence and the 1913 survey line connecting the Indian
and Russian surveys, International Karakorum Project 1980, 1, Camb. Univ.
Press., 160-170, 1984.
2. Chen, J., T. Crompton, J. Walton and
R. Bilham, The survey work of the International Karakorum Project, 1980.
International Karakorum Project 1980, 2, Camb. Univ. Press., 124-139, 1984.
3. Bilham, R., G.C. Jacoby and G. Pant,
A preliminary study of ancient trees in the Hunza Valley, Pakistan, and their
dendrochronologic potential, International Karakorum Project, 1980, 2, Camb.
Univ. Press, 599-606, 1984.
4. Bilham, R., Mountain metrology and
space geodesy, Appalachia, 47, 187,
79-107, Dec 1988.
5. Jackson, M., S. Barrientos, R.
Bilham, D. Kyestha, and B. Shrestha, Localized deformation in the Nepal
Himalaya revealed by spirit leveling, Geophys.
Res. Lett., 19, 1539-1542, 1992.
6. Jackson, M., and R. Bilham,
Constraints on Himalayan Deformation inferred from Vertical Velocity Fields in
Nepal and Tibet, J. Geophys. Res., 99(B7),
13897-13912, 1994
7. Bilham, The 1737 Calcutta Earthquake
and Cyclone Evaluated, Bull. Seism. Soc.
Amer. 84(5), 1650-1657, 1994.
8. Jackson, M. and R. Bilham, Epoch GPS
measurements across the Nepal Himalaya, Geophysical
Research Letters, 21(12), 1169-1172, 1994.
9. Bilham, R., The Next Great Earthquake
in the Nepal Himalaya, Himal Magazine,
7(3), 26-30, 1994
10. Bilham, R., P. Bodin, M. Jackson,
Entertaining a Great Earthquake in Western Nepal:Historic Activity and Geodetic
Tests for the Development of Strain, J. Geol.Soc. Nepal, 11, 73-88, 1995.
11. Bilham, R., Location and magnitude
of the 1833 Nepal earthquake and its relation to the rupture zones of
contiguous great Himalayan earthquakes, Current
Science, 69(2), 155-187, 1995.
12. Paul, J., R. Bilham, & 9 authors, Microstrain
Stability of Peninsula India 1864-1994,
Proc. Indian Acad.Sci.(Earth
Planet. Sci.) 104(1), March 1995.
13. Freymueller, R. Bilham R. BŸrgmann
and K. Larson, Global Positioning
System measurements of Indian Plate motion and convergence across the Lesser
Himalaya,Geophys. Res. Lett . 23 (22), 3107-3110. 1996
14. Bilham, R., K. Larson, J. Freymueller and Project
Idylhim members, GPS measurements of present-day convergence across the Nepal
Himalaya, Nature(Lond)., 386, 61-64
1997.
15. Bilham, R., The elusive height of
Mount Everest. in Everest, 26-27,
National Geographic Society, 1997.
16. Bilham. R., F. Blume, R. Bendick and V. K. Gaur.
Geodetic constraints on the Translation and Deformation of India: implications
for future great Himalayan earthquakes, Current
Science, 74,(3), 213-229, 10 Feb. 1998
17. Bilham, R., Slip
parameters for the Rann of Kachchh, India, 16 June 1819, earthquake, quantified
from contemporary accounts.
In Stewart, I. S. & Vita-Finzi, C. (Eds) Coastal Tectonics. Geological Society London, 146, 295-318, 1999
18. Bendick, R. and R. Bilham
(1999) Search for buckling of the
southwest Indian coast related to Himalayan collision. In Himalaya and Tibet:
mountain roots to mountain tops.
Ed. A. Macfarlane, R. Sorkhabi, and J. Quade. Geological Society of
America Special Paper 328. pp.313-323.
19. Larson, K., R.
BŸrgmann, R. Bilham, J. Freymueller,
Kinematics of the India-Eurasia Collision Zone from GPS
measurements. J. Geophys. Res. 104, 1177-1093, 1999.
20. BŸrgmann,
R., Larson, K. and R. Bilham, Model inversion of GPS and leveling
measurements across the Himalaya:
Implications for Earthquake Hazards and future geodetic networks, Himalayan Geology, 20, 59-72, 1999.
21. Bilham, R., The changing height of
Everest, in To the vertical end of the Earth, S. Wong, 177-181, Landmark,
Singapore. 1999.
22. Bendick, R, R. Bilham, J. Freymueller K.
Larson, G. Peltzer & Guanghua
Yin, Geodetic Evidence for a low slip rate in the Altyn Tagh Fault and
Constraints on Asian Deformation., Nature, 404, 69-72, 2000.
23. Ambraseys, N., and R. Bilham, A
note on the Kangra Ms=7.8 earthquake of 4 April 1905. Current Science, 79,
101-106, 2000.
24. Bilham, R., and V. K Gaur, Geodetic
contributions to the study of seismotectonics in India, Current Science 79(9),
1259-1269, 2000.
25. Searle, M. P., B. R. Hacker, and R.
Bilham, The Hindu Kush seismic zone as a paradigm for the creation of
ultra-high pressure diamond and coesite-bearing continental rocks, Journal of Geology, 109, 143-153, 2000.
26. Paul, J., Burgmann, R. Gaur, V.
K. Bilham, R. Larson, K. M. Ananda,
M. B. Jade, S. Mukal, M. Anupama,
T. S. Satyal, G., Kumar, D. 2001 The motion and active deformation of India. Geophys. Res. Lett. 28
(4) , 647-651, 2001.
27. Bilham, R., Slow tilt reversal of
the Lesser Himalaya between 1862 and 1992 at 78¡E, and bounds to the southeast
rupture of the 1905 Kangra earthquake, Geophys.
J. Int (2001) 144, 1-23.
28. Bilham, R. and P. England, Plateau pop-up during
the great 1897 Assam earthquake. Nature, 410, 806 - 809 (2001)
29. Bendick, R., R. Bilham, E. Fielding, V. K. Gaur, S. Hough, G.
Kier, M. N. Kulkarni, S. Martin, K.
Mueller and M. Mukul, The January 26, 2001 "Republic Day" Earthquake,
India. Seism. Res. Lett., 72(3), 328-335, 2001.
30. Bilham, R., V. K. Gaur and P. Molnar, Himalayan
Seismic Hazard, Science, 293, 1442-4, 2001.
31. Bendick, R., and R. Bilham,
How perfect is the Himalayan Arc? Geology, 29,791-794, 2001.
32. Wang, Qi, Pei-Zhen Zhang, J. T. Freymueller, R. Bilham, K. M.
Larson, XiÕan Lai, X. You, Z. Niu, J. Wu, Y. Li, J. Liu, Z. Yang, Q. Chen, Present Day Crustal Deformation in China constrained by
Global Positioning Measurements, Science,
294, 574-577, 2001.
33. Hough, S. E., S. Martin, R. Bilham and G.
Atkinson, The January 26 2001, Bhuj India earthquake: Observed and predicted
Ground Motions, Seism. Soc. Am. 92(6), 2061-2079, 2002.
34. Ortiz, M., and R. Bilham, source area
and rupture parameters of the 31 Dec. 1881 Mw 7.9 Car Nicobar earthquake
estimated from Tsunamis recorded in the Bay of Bengal, J.
Geophys. Res.,
108 (B4) 23 April 2003 [2002JB001941RR 2003. ]
35. Ambraseys, N., and R. Bilham, Earthquakes and crustal deformation in
northern Baluchistan, Bull. Seism Soc.
Am. 93(4), 1573-160, 2003
36. Hough,
S and R. Bilham, (2003) Shaken to the Core, Natural
History Magazine, 112(1),42-48.
37. Ambraseys, N., and R. Bilham, MSK Isoseismal intensities evaluated for
the 1897 Great Assam Earthquake, Bull.
Seism Soc. Am. 93(2)
655-673, 2003
38. Ambraseys, N., and R. Bilham (2003),
Earthquakes in Afghanistan, Seism. Res.
Lett., 74(2), 107-123.
39. Bilham, R., R. Bendick, and K.
Wallace, (2003). Flexure of the Indian Plate and intraplate earthquakes, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet Sci.),112(3) 1-14
40. Sri
Devi Jade and 12 other authors, Pre-seismic, co-seismic and post seismic
displacements associated with the Bhuj earthquake derived from recent and
historic geodetic data. J. Ind Inst of
Sci. 112(3),
331-346, 2003.
41. Hough, S.E., S.
Martin, R. Bilham and Gail M Atkinson (2003). A media based assessment of
damage and ground motions from the 26 January 2001 M7.6 Bhuj, India, earthquake. J. Ind Inst of Sci., 112(3), 353-356.
42. Bilham,
R, (2003) Moving Mountains, In
Everest 1953-2003. Geographical Magazine,
75(5), 68-69.
42. Dunbar, P. K., R. G.
Bilham and M. J. Laituri, (2003)
Earthquake loss estimation for India based on macroeconomic indicators, in Risk Science and Sustainability:
Science for Reduction of Risk and Sustainable Development of Society, edited by
T. Beer and A. Ismail-Zadeh.
44. Bilham, R. and S. K. Srivastava (2003). Preface to the special issue on The
Bhuj Earthquake, Gujarat, India, 2001, Proc.
Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet Sci.), 112(3)
313-314
45. Bilham, R.,
Earthquakes in India and the Himalaya: tectonics, geodesy and history, (2004)Annals of Geophysics, 47(2), 839-858.
46. Bilham R and K Wallace, (2005),
Future Mw>8 earthquakes in the Himalaya: implications from the 26 Dec 2004
Mw=9.0 earthquake on India's eastern plate margin, Geol. Surv. India Spl.
Pub.
85, 1-14.
47. Hough,
S. E. R. Bilham, N. Ambraseys and N. Feldl, (2005)., The 1905 Kangra and Dehra
Dun earthquakes, Geol. Surv. India Spl. Pub.
85, 15-22.
49. Bilham, R. (2005)A flying start followed by slow slip. Science, 308(5725),1126.
50.
Bilham, R., and N. Ambraseys, Apparent Himalayan slip deficit from the
summation of seismic moments for Himalayan earthquakes, 1500-2000, Current Science, 88(10), 1658-1663, 2005.
51. Hough
S. E., R. Bilham, N. Ambraseys, and N. Feldl, Revisiting the 1897 Shillong and
1905 Kangra earthquakes in northern India:
Site Response, Moho reflections and a Triggered Earthquake, Current Science, 88(10), 1632-8, 2005.
52. Schulte-Pelkum, V., A. Sheehan, F. Wu, R. Bilham,
Imaging the Indian Subcontinent beneath the Himalaya, Nature, 435, 1222-1225, 30 June 2005
53. Wallace,
K.; Bilham, R.; Blume, F.; Gaur, V. K.; Gahalaut, V.,(2005) Surface deformation
in the region of the 1905 Kangra Mw = 7.8 earthquake in the period
1846–2001, Geophys. Res. Lett.,
Vol. 32, No. 15, L15307, 10.1029/2005GL022906
54. Bilham,
R. (2006). Dangerous Tectonics, Fragile Buildings, and Tough Decisions, Science 31 March 2006:
(311)5769, 1873 - 1875
DOI:
10.1126/science.1125176
55. Bilham,
R. (2006), Comment on ÒInterpreting the style of faulting and paleoseismicity
associated with the 1897 Shillong, northeast India, earthquakeÓ by C. P.
Rajendran et al., Tectonics, 25,
TC2001, doi:10.1029/2005TC001893.
56. Bilham
R., and S. Hough, 2006, Future earthquakes on the Indian Continent: Inevitable
hazard, preventable risk. South Asia
Magazine, 12, 1-9, April-June
2006
57. Wallace,
K., R. Bilham, F. Blume, V. K. Gaur, and V. Gahalaut (2006), Geodetic
constraints on the Bhuj 2001 earthquake and surface deformation in the Kachchh
Rift Basin, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L10301, doi:10.1029/2006GL025775
58. Bilham, R., (2006) Moving Mountains,
132-137, in Himalaya, R.C. Blum, E.
Stone and B. Coburn, ed., pp 255.
National Geographic Society. ISBN-10: 0-7922-6192-5.
59. Feldl, N and R. Bilham, Great Himalayan
Earthquakes and the Tibetan Plateau,
Nature 444, 165-170 (9
November 2006) | doi:10.1038/nature05199;
60. Satyabala,
S. P., and R. Bilham (2006), Surface deformation and subsurface slip of the 28
March 1999 Mw = 6.4 west Himalayan
Chamoli earthquake from InSAR analysis, Geophys.
Res. Lett., 33, L23305, doi:10.1029/2006GL027422
61. Bendick, R., R. Bilham, M. Asif Khan, S.
Faisal Khan, (2006), Slip on an active wedge thrust from geodetic observations
of the 8 October 2005 Kashmir earthquake, Geology,
35(3), 267-270
62. Bilham, R. S. Lodi, S. Hough, S. Bukhary, Abid Murtaza
Khan, and S.F.A. Rafeeqi, (2007) Seismic Hazard in Karachi, Pakistan: Uncertain
Past, Uncertain Future, Seism. Res. Lett.78(6), 601-631.
63. Paul,
J., A. R. Lowry, R. Bilham, S. Sen,
and R. Smalley Jr., (2007). Postseismic
deformation of the Andaman Islands following the 26 December, 2004 Great
Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34,
doi:10.1029/2007GL031024, 2007
64. Bilham,
R., (2008) Tom LaTouche and the
Great Assam Earthquake of 12 June 1897; letters from the epicenter. Seis.
Res. Lett. 79(3), 426-437.
Electronic
supplement: Transcriptions of LaTouche's letters 1882-1913 illustrated by
archival photographs from Calcutta and London.2008.http://www.seismosoc.org/publications/SRL/SRL_79/srl_79-3_hs.html
http://www.seismosoc.org/publications/SRL/SRL_79/srl_79-3_bilham_esupp/index.html
65. Clark, M.K., &
Bilham, R., (2008) Miocene rise of the Shillong Plateau and the beginning of
the end for the Eastern Himalaya, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 269(3),
337-351. doi: 10.1016/j. epsl. 2008.01.045
66. Bilham, R., and W. Szeliga, (2008). Interaction Between the
Himalaya and the Flexed Indian Plate - Spatial Fluctuations in Seismic
Hazard in India in the Past Millennium? 2008
Seismic Enginering Conference Commemorating the 1908 Messina and Reggio
Calabria earthquake, ed A. Santini and N. Moraci, American Inst. of Physics
Conf. Proc., 224-231, 978-0-7354-4/08/ 1020(1), 224-231, (978-0-7354-0542-4/08).
67.
Hough, S., and R. Bilham, (2008). Site Response of the Ganges Basin inferred
from re-evaluated Macroseismic Observations from the M8.1 Shillong 1897, M7.8
Kangra 1905 and 1934 Nepal M8.1 earthquakes. Journal of Earth System Science. 117, S2, 773-782
68. Szeliga,
W., R. Bilham, D. Schelling, D. M. Kakar and S. Lodi, (2009) Fold and thrust partitioning in a contracting
fold belt: Evidence
from the 1931 Mach Earthquake in Baluchistan. Tectonics doi:10.1029/2008TC002265http://www.agu.org/journals/tc/tc0905/2008TC002265/
69. Hough,
S. E., I Bhat and R. Bilham, (2009) On shakey ground- megaquakes in Kashmir,
American Scientist, 97(1), 42-49.
70. Ambraseys N. and R. Bilham, (2009). The tectonic setting
of Bamiyan and seismicity in and near Afghanistan for the past twelve
centuries. UNESCO
Special Publication: The Destruction of the Giant Buddha Statues in Bamyian,
Central Afghanistan, UNESCO's emergency activities for the recovering and
rehabilitation of cliff and niches. Ed. Carlo Crippa and Claudio Margottini.
pages 67-93.
71. Bilham,
R., The seismic future of cities,
Twelfth annual Mallet Milne Lecture. Bull. Earthquake Engineering, 2009,
7(4), 839-887. DOI 10.1007/s10518-009-9147-0
72. Bilham,
R. (2009) Next Year's Earthquake vs. Last Year's Disaster vis-ˆ-vis
Engineered Action vs. Societal Reaction, Journal of South
Asia Disaster Studies, 2(1),
181-196.
73. Mohadjer, S., R. Bendick, A. Ischuk, S. Kuzikov, A. Kostuk,
U. Saydullaev, S. Lodi, D.
M. Kakar, A. Wasy, M. A. Khan,P. Molnar, R. Bilham and A. V. Zubovich, Partitioning of India‐Eurasia convergence in the Pamir‐Hindu Kush
from GPS measurements, (2010). Geophs. Res. lett., 37, L04305, doi:10.1029/2009GL041737, 2010
74.
Bilham, R., and S. Lodi, (2010).The door knockers of Mansurah,: Strong shaking
in a region of low perceived seismic risk, Sindh, Pakistan. GSA Special Paper 471 on Ancient
earthquakes, (edited by Manuel Sintubin, Iain S. Stewart, Tina
M. Niemi, and Erhan Altunel.
75.
Bilham, R., B. Singh, I. Bhat and S. Hough, (2010). Historical earthquakes in
Srinagar, Kashmir: Clues from the Shiva Temple at Pandrethan, GSA Special Paper
471 on Ancient earthquakes, (edited by Manuel Sintubin, Iain
S. Stewart, Tina M. Niemi, and Erhan Altunel. ISBM 9780813724713
76.
Khan, M. A. R. Bendick, I.M. Bhat, R. Bilham, D.M. Kakar. S. F. Khan, S. H.
Lodi, M. S. Qazi, B. Singh, W. Szeliga amd A. Wahab, Preliminary geodetic
constraints on plate boundary deformation on the western edge of the Indian
Plate from TriGGNnet, J. Himalayan Earth Sciences, 41
(2008), 71-87). Published 2010
77. Szeliga, W, S. Martin, S. Hough, and R. Bilham, (2010)
Intensity, magnitude, location and attenuation in India for felt earthquakes
since 1762. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer. 100, 2, 570-584, 2010 [based
on Martin. S., and W. Szeliga, A catalog of felt intensity data for 589
earthquakes in India, 1636-2009, Bull.Seism.Soc.Amer, 100, 2, pp.
536-569, 2010]
78. Bilham,
R., and V. K. Gaur, Historical and Future Seismicity near Jaitapur, India,
Current Science, Current Science,
101(10), 1275-1281.
79. Satyabala, S. P. , Zhaohui Yang and Roger Bilham, Stick-slip advance of
the Kohat plateau, Pakistan, Nature
Geoscience, 5(147-150., DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1373
80. Ambraseys, N. and R. Bilham, The Sarez-Pamir Earthquake and Landslide
of 18 February 1911 , Seismological Research Letters
83(2), 294-314, March/April 2012 doi:
10.1785/gssrl.83.2.294.
81. Bilham,
R., Societal and Observational Problems in earthquake risk assessments and
their delivery to those most at risk, Tectonophysics, 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.03.023
2012.
82. Roger Bilham and Eric Fielding, Remote sensing and the search for surface rupture, Haiti 2010, Natural Hazards, Special Issue :Remote Sensing contributing to mapping earthquake vulnerability and effectsÓ.DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0550-0
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Earthquake case studies : 1737 Calcutta, 1819
Kachchh., 1833 Nepal, 1881 Andaman,
1897 Shillong, 1905 Kangra, 1931 Mach, 1935, Quetta, 1934 Bihar Nepal, 1945 Makran, 2001
Bhuj , 2004 Andaman, 2005 Kashmir, 2011 Dalbandin.
Kashmir
Temples of Kashmir,
Stein's translation of Rajatarangini,
Indian geologists: Kurz 1886, Burnes 1828,
Griesbach 1845-1907, Oldham 1858-1936, laTouche 1856-1938, Middlemiss 1859-1945.