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Kumar A, Singh S, Mahajan S, et al. Earthquake precursory studies in Kangra valley of North West Himalayas, India, with special emphasis on radon emission. Appl Radiat Isot. 2009;67(10):1904-11doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.05.016.
Kumar, A., Singh, S., Mahajan, S., Bajwa, B. S., Kalia, R., & Dhar, S. (2009). Earthquake precursory studies in Kangra valley of North West Himalayas, India, with special emphasis on radon emission. Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine, 67(10), 1904-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.05.016
Kumar, Arvind, et al. "Earthquake precursory studies in Kangra valley of North West Himalayas, India, with special emphasis on radon emission." Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine vol. 67,10 (2009): 1904-11. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.05.016
Kumar A, Singh S, Mahajan S, Bajwa BS, Kalia R, Dhar S. Earthquake precursory studies in Kangra valley of North West Himalayas, India, with special emphasis on radon emission. Appl Radiat Isot. 2009 Oct;67(10):1904-11. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.05.016. Epub 2009 May 29. PMID: 19546007.
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Appl Radiat Isot. 2009 Oct;67(10):1904-11. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.05.016. Epub 2009 May 29.

Earthquake precursory studies in Kangra valley of North West Himalayas, India, with special emphasis on radon emission.

Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine

Arvind Kumar, Surinder Singh, Sandeep Mahajan, Bikramjit Singh Bajwa, Rajeev Kalia, Sunil Dhar

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India.

PMID: 19546007 DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.05.016

Abstract

The continuous soil gas radon monitoring is carried out at Palampur and the daily monitoring of radon concentration in water is carried out at Dharamshala region of Kangra valley of North West Himalayas, India, a seismic zone V, to study the correlation of radon anomalies in relation to seismic activities. In this study, radon monitoring in soil was carried out by using barasol probe manufactured by Algade France, whereas the radon content in water was recorded using RAD 7 radon monitoring system of Durridge Company USA. The effect of meteorological parameters viz. temperature, pressure, wind velocity, rainfall, and humidity on radon emission has been studied. The seasonal average value and standard deviation of radon in soil and water is calculated to find the radon anomaly to minimize the effect of meteorological parameters on radon emission. The radon anomalies observed in the region have been correlated with the seismic events of M>or=2 reported by Wadia Institute of Himalayas Geology Dehradoon and Indian Meteorological Department, New Delhi in NW Himalayas within 250km distance from the monitoring stations.

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