INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA

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An Autonomous Institution, Under the Ministry of Education, Government of India

Supriyo Mitra

Professor
Dept: Earth Sciences (DES)
E-mail: supriyomitra [at] iiserkol.ac.in

All Publications:

  1. Mitra, Supriyo; Sharma, Swati; Priestley, Keith and Wanchoo, Sunil Kumar. 2023."3D crustal structure of the Jammu and Kashmir Himalaya: Signatures of mid-crustal ramp and Lesser Himalayan duplex.." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, JB027350
  2. Thapa, Hari Ram; Pachhai, Surya; Aoudia, Abdelkrim; Manu-Marfo, Daniel; Priestley, Keith and Mitra, Supriyo. 2023."The Main Himalayan Thrust beneath Nepal and Southern Tibet illuminated by seismic ambient noise and teleseismic P wave coda autocorrelation.." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, JB026195
  3. Chaudhury, Jashodhara and Mitra, Supriyo. 2023."Sub-Continental Lithospheric Mantle Discontinuities beneath the Eastern Himalayan Plate Boundary System, NE India." Geophysical Journal International, xx, xx
  4. O’Kane, Aisling; Copley, Alex; Mitra, Supriyo and Wimpenny, Sam. 2022."The geometry of active shortening in the north-west Himalayas and the implications for seismic hazard." Geophysical Journal International, 231, 2009-2033
  5. Mitra, Supriyo; Wanchoo, Sunil Kumar and Priestley, Keith. 2022."Seismic Coda-Wave Attenuation Tomography of the Jammu and Kashmir Himalaya." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, JB024917
  6. Chaudhury, Jashodhara; Mitra, Supriyo and Sarkar, Tapabrato. 2021."Hales discontinuity in the southern Indian continental lithosphere: Seismological and petrological models." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, JB020564
  7. Powali, Debarchan; Sharma, Shubham; Mandal, Riddhi and Mitra, Supriyo. 2020."A reappraisal of the 2005 Kashmir (Mw 7.6) earthquake and its aftershocks: Seismotectonics of NW Himalaya." Tectonophysics, 789, 228501
  8. Sharma, Swati; Mitra, Supriyo; Sharma, Shubham; Priestley, Keith; Wanchoo, Sunil K; Powali, Debarchan and Ali, Liyaqet. 2020."A Report on Broadband Seismological Experiment in the Jammu and Kashmir Himalaya (JAKSNET)." Seismological Research Letters, 91, 1915-1926
  9. Kanaujia, Jyotima; Mitra, Supriyo; Gupta, S C and Sharma, M L. 2019."Crustal anisotropy from shear-wave splitting of local earthquakes in the Garhwal Lesser Himalaya." Geophysical Journal International, 219, 2013-2033
  10. Singh, Rashmi; Sharma, Subham; Mitra, Supriyo and Khan, Prosanta Kumar. 2019."Mapping of Coda-Wave Attenuation and Its Frequency Dependency Over Eastern Indian Shield." Pure Appl. Geophys, XX, 1-23
  11. Mitra, Supriyo; Dey, Siddharth; Chaudhury, Jashodhara; Ghosh, Monumoy; Mandal, Riddhi; Kanaujia, Jyotima and Mitra, Supriyo. 2019."28 August 2018 (Mw 4.5) Bengal Basin earthquake highlights active basement fault beneath the sediments." Current Science, 116, 1633-1636
  12. Priestley, Keith; Ho, Tak and Mitra, Supriyo. 2019."The crust structure of the Himalaya: a synthesis." Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 483, 00
  13. Sharma, Shubham and Mitra, Supriyo. 2018."Seismic attenuation of the Eastern Himalayan and Indo?Burman plate boundary systems, Northeast India." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123, 00
  14. Paul, Himangshu; Priestley, K F; Powali, Debarchan; Sharma, Swati; Mitra, Supriyo and Wanchoo, Sunil K. 2018."Signatures of the existence of frontal and lateral ramp structures near the Kishtwar Window of the Jammu and Kashmir Himalaya: Evidence from microseismicity and source mechanisms." Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19, 3097–3114
  15. Mitra, Supriyo; Priestley, Keith F; Borah, Kajaljyoti and Gaur, Vinod K. 2018."Crustal Structure and Evolution of the Eastern Himalayan Plate Boundary System, Northeast India." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123, 621-640
  16. Paul, Himangshu and Mitra, Supriyo. 2017."Three?Dimensional crustal architecture beneath the Sikkim Himalaya and its relationship to active deformation." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122, 1-19
  17. Kumar, Ajay; Singh, Shashwat Kumar; Mitra, Supriyo; Priestley, Keith F and Dayal, Sankar. 2017."The 2015 April 25 Gorkha (Nepal) Earthquake and its Aftershocks: Implications for lateral heterogeneity on the Main Himalayan Thrust." Geophysical Journal International, 208, 992-1008
  18. Ajaay, Thirunavukarasu; Kumar, Ajay and Mitra, Supriyo. 2017."Lateral Variation of Seismic Attenuation in Sikkim Himalaya." Geophysical Journal International, 208, 257-268
  19. Kumar, Ajay; Mitra, Supriyo and G, Suresh. 2015."Seismotectonics of the Eastern Himalayan and Indo-Burman Plate Boundary Systems." Tectonics, 34, 2279-2295
  20. Mitra, Supriyo; Paul, Himahgshu; Kumar, Ajay; Singh, Shashwat Kumar and Powali, Debarchan. 2015."The 25 April 2015 Nepal earthquake and its aftershocks." Current Science, 108, 1938-1943
  21. Paul, Himangshu; Mitra, Supriyo; Bhattacharya, S N and Suresh, G. 2015."Active Transverse faulting within underthrust Indian Crust beneath the Sikkim Himalaya." Geophysical Journal International, 201, 1072-1083
  22. Copley, Alex; Mitra, Supriyo; Sloan, Alastair R; Gaonkar, S and Reynolds, K. 2014."Active faulting in apparently stable peninsular India: Rift inversion and a Holocene-age great earthquake on the Tapti Fault." Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth), 119, 6650-6666
  23. Mitra, Supriyo; Wanchoo, Sunil K and Priestley, Keith F. 2014."Source Parameters of the 1 May 2013, mb 5.7 Kishtwar Earthquake: Implications for Seismic Hazards." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 104, 1013-1019
  24. Bhattacharya, S N; Mitra, Supriyo and Suresh, G. 2013."The shear-wave velocity of the upper mantle beneath the Bay of Bengal, Northeast Indian Ocean from inter-station phase velocities of surface waves." Geophysical Journal International, 193, 1506-1514
  25. Mitra, Supriyo; Priestley, K F; Acton, C E and Gaur, V K. 2011."Anomalous surface wave dispersion and the enigma of "continental-like" structure for the Bay of Bengal." Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 42, 1243-1255
  26. Acton, C E; Priestley, K F; Mitra, Supriyo and Gaur, V K. 2011."Crustal structure of the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya and Southern Tibet." Geophysical Journal International, 184, 829-852
  27. Mitra, Supriyo; Kainkaryam, Sribharath M; Padhi, Amit; Rai, S S and Bhattacharya, S N. 2011."The Himalayan foreland basin crust and upper mantle." Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 184, 34-40
  28. BHattacharya, S N; Suresh, G and Mitra, Supriyo. 2009."Lithospheric S-wave velocity structure of the Bastar craton, Indian peninsula from surface-wave phase-velocity measurements." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 99, 2502-2508
  29. Walling, Yanger M; Mohanty, William K; Nath, S K; Mitra, Supriyo and John, Ajesh. 2009."Microtremor survey in Talchir, India to ascertain its basin characteristics in terms of predominant frequency by Nakamura's ratio technique." Engineering Geology, 106, 123-132
  30. Dasgupta, S; Nowack, R L and Mitra, Supriyo. 2009."Deconvolution of three-component teleseismic data from Southern Tibet using the SVA technique." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 99, 1973-1983
  31. Mitra, Supriyo; Bhattacharya, S N and Nath, S K. 2008."Crustal structure of the Western Bengal Basin from joint analysis of Teleseismic Receiver Functions and Rayleigh Wave Dispersion." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 98, 2715-2723
  32. Mitra, Supriyo; Priestley, K F; Gaur, V K and Rai, S S. 2006."Frequency-Dependent Lg Attenuation in the Indian Platform." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 96, 2449-2456
  33. Rai, S S; Gaur, V K; Priestley, K F; Mitra, Supriyo; Singh, M P and Searle, M P. 2006."Confguration of the Indian Moho beneath the NW Himalaya and Ladakh." Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L15308
  34. Mitra, Supriyo; Priestley, K F; Gaur, V K and Rai, S S. 2006."Shear-Wave Structure of the South Indian Lithosphere from Rayleigh Wave Phase Velocity Measurements." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 96, 1551-1559
  35. Mitra, Supriyo; Priestley, K F; Gaur, V K; Rai, S S and Haines, John A. 2006."Variation of Rayleigh wave group velocity dispersion and seismic heterogeneity of the Indian crust and uppermost mantle.." Geophysical Journal International, 164, 88-98
  36. Nath, S K; Bhattacharya, S N; Vyas, M; Pal, I; Sengupta, P; Mitra, Supriyo; Mohanty, W K and Ganguli, S S. 2005."The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 26 December as percived from the broadband seismograms of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Seismological Observatory.." Current Science, 88, 1381-1383
  37. Mitra, Supriyo; Priestley, K F; Bhattacharya, Anjan K and Gaur, V K. 2005."Crustal Structure and Earthquake Focal Depths Beneath Northeastern India and Southern Tibet." Geophysical Journal International, 160, 227-248
  38. Biswal, T K; Biswal, Bimal; Mitra, Supriyo and Roy MouliK, M. 2002."Deformation pattern of the NW terrane boundary of the Eastern ghats Mobile Belt, India : A Tectonic Model and Correlation with Antartica." Gondwana Research, 5, 45-52