A REMOTE SENSING ANALYSIS OF THE RECENT EARTHQUAKE: BHUJ AND KATHIAWAR PENINSULA OF THE INDIAN SUB - CONTINENT TO SEGREGATE INTO ISLAND

摘要

The present study is an attempt to use remote sensing technique for surfacial changes in the Bhuj-Kachchh and Kathiwar-Saurashtra areas. The whole investigation has been carried through visual interpretation technique. The pre and post earthquake satellite picture reveals that fault zones have been developed right from the Greater Rann to the little Rann. The Kachchh main land fault has been intensified. So far this region has experienced nearly 2500 earthquake shocks from low to high intensity since 20th January 2001. If this region continues to experience earthquakes quite frequently, the peninsula of Kachchh-Bhuj and Kathiawar-Saurashtra will be cut of from the main land of Gujarat as a result of new tectonic and mountain building activity in the next few thousands years. It could also take the shape of two separate islands. Now it is the area of severe active seismic zone of the world.