We use 2004–2011 Envisat synthetic aperture radar imagery and InSAR time series methods to estimate the contemporary rates of strain accumulation in the Chaman Fault system in Pakistan and Afghanistan.At29Nwefind long-termslip ratesof16 ± 2.3mm/yr for theGhazabandFault andof8 ± 3.1mm/yr for the Chaman Fault. This makes the Ghazaband Fault one of themost hazardous faults of the plate boundary zo...

Earthquakes can cause tremendous loss of life and property yet predicting the behavior of earthquake fault systems is exceptionally difficult. The Earths crust is complex and earthquakes generate at depth, which is problematic for understanding earthquake fault behavior. Geodetic imaging observations of crustal deformation from Global Positioning System (GPS) and Interferometric Synthetic Apert...

Recent paleontological investigations of six sections fringing the Deccan volcanic outcrops of the Indian peninsula indicate that terrestrial faunas during the Cretaceous-Paleocene transition lacked the endemism predicted by geophysical models of an oceanically isolated Indian subcontinent. At the generic and familial level there is a close correspondence between the Cretaceous vertebrates of p...

For many decades the designs of earthquake-resistant (aseismic) structures have been influenced by scaled experiments, underpinned theory dimensional analysis. Although experiments still play an important role, they are recognised to suffer shortcomings, which particularly severe when scaling ratios pronounced. The issue is one scale effects and inability analysis offer any solution in their pr...