Staff profiles
Kiran ThingbaijamSeismologist
Biography
Kiran Kumar Thingbaijam is a Seismologist. He is a member of the core team working on the Aotearoa New Zealand National Seismic Hazard model. His research covers varied topics within engineering seismology; more specifically, earthquake source characterization and scaling, ground motion simulation and modelling, and seismic hazard analysis.
Qualifications
- PhD, Earthquake Seismology
- MTech, Computational Seismology
Areas of expertise
- Geophysics: Seismology
- Geophysics: Data analysis
- Geophysics: Seismic hazard models
- Geophysics: Modelling earthquake source processes
- Geophysics: Earthquake scaling relations
- Geophysics: Earthquake hazard modelling
- Geophysics: Earthquake strong-motion
- Geophysics: Seismic hazard assessment
- Geophysics: Statistical Seismology
Major Publications
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- A seismogenic slab source model for Aotearoa New Zealand, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 114(1): p. 95-110. DOI: 10.1785/0120230080. p. 95-110
- Characteristic versus GutenbergRichter nucleation based magnitude frequency distributions in the New Zealand National Seismic Hazard Model 2022, Seismological Research Letters 95(1): p. 226-238. DOI: 10.1785/0220230220. p. 226-238
- Characterization of focal mechanisms for upper crustal distributed seismicity in Aotearoa New Zealand, Seismological Research Letters 95(1): p. 150-158. DOI: 10.1785/0220230196. p. 150-158
- Average coseismic slip profiles DOI: 10.21420/S6ED-JN06. Lower Hutt, N.Z.: GNS Science. GNS Science report 2021/24 33 p.
- A seismogenic slab source model for New Zealand DOI: 10.21420/CDMK-3F30. Lower Hutt, NZ: GNS Science. GNS Science report 2021/50 31 p.
- A simple model of faulting patterns for distributed seismicity in New Zealand DOI: 10.21420/3ADY-7150. Lower Hutt, N.Z.: GNS Science. GNS Science report 2022/10 45 p.
- New empirical earthquake source-scaling laws, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 107(5): p. 2225-2246. DOI: 10.1785/0120170017. p. 2225-2246
- Accounting for fault roughness in pseudo-dynamic ground-motion simulations, Pure and Applied Geophysics 174(9): p. 3419-3450. DOI: 10.1007/s00024-017-1536-8. p. 3419-3450
- Evidence for truncated exponential probability distribution of earthquake slip, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 106(4): p. 1802-1816. DOI: 10.1785/0120150291. p. 1802-1816
- SRCMOD : an online database of finite-fault rupture models, Seismological Research Letters 85(6): p. 1348-1357. DOI: 10.1785/0220140077. p. 1348-1357
- Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment of India, Seismological Research Letters 83(1): p. 135-149. DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.83.1.135. p. 135-149
- Peak ground motion predictions in India : an appraisal for rock sites, Journal of seismology 15(2): p. 295-315. DOI: 10.1007/s10950-010-9224-5. p. 295-315
- Recent seismicity in Northeast India and its adjoining region, Journal of seismology 12(1): p. 107-123. p. 107-123