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Dr. Devajit Hazarika

Dr. Devajit Hazarika

Designation : Scientist ‘E’

Phone : 7060198630

E-mail : devajit[at]wihg[dot]res[dot]in

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  • Research Group

    Geophysics (Seismology)

  • Specialization

    Seismology

  • Academic Qualification

    M. Sc. , Ph. D. (Seismology)

  • Professional Experience

    Year Experience
    July 2021 - till date Scientist - E & Associate Professor (AcSIR) Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) 33, GMS Road, Dehradun
    June 2017 - June 2021 Scientist - D Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) 33, GMS Road, Dehradun
    July 2013 - June 2017 Scientist - C WIHG, 33, GMS Road, Dehradun
    August 2007 - June 2013 Scientist, - B WIHG, 33, GMS Road, Dehradun
    2005-2007 Guest Faculty, M.Tech course in Computational Seismology Department of Mathematical Sciences Tezpur University (Central University), Assam
    2001 - 2005 Research Scholar Geoscience Division CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology (Formerly Regional Research Laboratory), Jorhat, Assam

  • Visiting Positions

    None

  • Services

    None

  • Awards/Fellowships/Honors/Memorial Lectures

    • Received ISES (Indian Society of Earthquake Science) Order of Merit Award for Young Scientist-2015. This award was given during the International Symposium on “Reducing Earthquake Losses and Advances in Earthquake Science” held during January 5-7, 2015 at the Institute of Seismological Research (ISR), Gandhinagar

    • Received best presentation awards (1st prize) for presentation of the paper entitled “Seismic characteristics of the crust and upper mantle beneath Eastern Ladakh: constraints from receiver function analysis” in the 3rd Annual Convention on “Advances in Earthquake Science-The Future Challenges”, held at Indian Seismological Research (ISR) Gandhinagar held during January 4-6, 2014.

    • Received Best Paper Award-2017 by Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun on June 29, 2018, for the paper entitled “Geometry of the Main Himalayan Thrust and Moho beneath Satluj valley, Northwest Himalaya: constraints from receiver function analysis”, authored by Devajit Hazarika, M. Wadhawan, Arpita Paul, Naresh Kumar, K. Borah. Published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth in 2017.

  • Countries Visited

    • 2018 : Switzerland : (Lausanne University, Switzerland for attending Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet work workshop (HKT-2018) during 09-13 September 2018)

    • 2011:San Francisco: (San Francisco, California for participation in the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting held in December 2011)

    • 2010:Russia (Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow in connection with an Integrated Long Term Project (ILTP) entitled “Detailed study and modeling of Geological structure NE” for one month during August 2010)

    • 2009:Taiwan (Visited Taiwan for participating in an international training program on “Seismic Design of Structures”, at National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE) in TAIWAN in October 2009)

  • National/International (outside WIHG)Collaboration

    • Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

    • Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad

    • Kumaon University, Nainital, Uttarakhand

    • University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun

    • Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

  • List of Publications

    • Amlanjyoti Das. Devajit Hazarika, Pritom Neog, Naresh Kumar, D.K. Yadav (2025). Delineation of crustal structure and composition in the Northwest Himalaya and adjoining Indo-Gangetic Plain. Tectonophysics, 904 (2025) 230717.

    • Devajit Hazarika, Neeharika Shukla, Amlanjyoti Das, Somak Hajra, Sagarika Mukhopadhyay (2024). A shallow mantle seismic discontinuity beneath northeast India: Evidence from receiver function analyses. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 276, 106375.

    • S. Baruah, C. Dey, T. Chetia, S. Saikia, K. Gogoi, Devajit Hazarika, M.K. Phukan, J.R. Kayal (2024), The June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake M 6.0: Tectonic implications and Coulomb stress change, Himalayan Geology, 45 (2), 252-259.
    • Vickey Sharma, Dipok Kumar Bora, Devajit Hazarika, Rajib Biswas (2024), Characterization of seismic b‑value around kopili fault and its neighboring region prior to 28th April 2021 earthquake, J. Seismology, 28, 1001–1025.

    • Amlanjyoti Das, Devajit Hazarika, Abhishek Kundu, N. Kumar and Dilip K. Yadav (2024) Sedimentary structures of the western part of the Indo-Gangetic Plain and Siwalik Himalaya inferred from receiver function inversion, Geophys. Journal International, 236, 1424–1438.

    • Kalachand Sain, Devajit Hazarika, Koushik Sen, R. Jayangonda Perumal, (2024). Status of geo‑scientific research at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun during 2020–2023. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, 90, 530–551. (Publication date April 2024)

    • Somak Hajra and Devajit Hazarika (2023). Stress Dissipation in the North-West Himalaya: What We Learnt from Post-seismic Stress Changes. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research (Springer Book), pp. 25-37, ISBN 978-981-99-3954-1.

    • A. Kundu, Devajit Hazarika, S. Hajra and D. K. Yadav (2023) Imaging the crustal structure at the northeast corner of the indenting Indian Plate in the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis, Geophys. Journal International, 235, 1035–1048.
    • S. K. Verma, N. Kumar, Devajit Hazarika, A. Paul, D. K. Yadav, S. K. Pal (2023). Shear wave crustal velocity structure in the Garhwal-Kumaon Himalaya based on noise cross-correlation of Rayleigh wave. Tectonophysics, 866, 230047.

    • S. Hajra and Devajit Hazarika (2023). Stress Dissipation in the North-West Himalaya: What We Learnt from Post-seismic Stress Changes. Geohazards: Analysis, Modelling and Forecasting (Springer Publications), 25-36.
    • Devajit Hazarika, Abhishek Kundu & Parthapratim Ghosh (2022). Seismotectonic scenario of the indenting northeast corner of the Indian plate in the Tidding-Tuting Suture Zone of the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis. Tectonophysics, 824, 229197.

    • Devajit Hazarika, & J.R. Kayal (2022). Recent felt earthquakes (Mw 5.0–5.9) in Mizoram of north-east India region: Seismotectonics and precursor appraisal. Geological Journal, 57(2), 877-885.

    • Somak Hajra, Devajit Hazarika, Vaishali Shukla, Abhishek Kundu, and Charu C. Pant (2022). Stress dissipation and seismic potential in the central seismic gap of the north-west Himalaya. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 239, 105432. (Navember 2022)
    • J. R. Kayal, S. Baruah, D. Hazarika, A. Das (2022). Recent large and strong earthquakes in the eastern Himalayas: An appraisal on seismotectonic model. Geological Journal, 57(12), 4929-4938, DOI: 10.1002/gj.4576 (December 2022).
    • Monika Wadhawan, D. Hazarika, A. Paul a, N. Kumar, V. Gupta, M. Agarwal, (2022). Seismic anisotropy and crustal deformation in the Satluj valley and adjoining region of northwest Himalaya revealed by the splitting analysis of Moho converted Ps phases. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 238, 105377 (15th October 2022).

    • Monika Wadhawan, D Hazarika, Sowrav Saikia (2022). Application of teleseismic receiver function in investigation of crustal thickness and Poisson's ratio. Book Chapter in the book entitled “Recent Developments in Using Seismic Waves as a Probe for Subsurface Investigations: Theory and Practices” published by Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 32

    • Arpita Paul, and D Hazarika (2022). Seismic anisotropy for understanding the dynamics of crust and upper mantle:A case study in the northwest Himalaya and eastern Ladakh-Karakoram zone. Book Chapter in the book entitled “Recent Developments in Using Seismic Waves as a Probe for Subsurface Investigations: Theory and Practices” published by Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 42

    • Dey, C., Baruah, S., Abdelwahed, M.F., Saikia, S., Molia, N., Borthakur, P., Chetia, T., Bharal, B., Dutta, N., Phukan, M.K., Paul, A., Saitlunga, Hazarika, D., and Kayal, J.R. (2022).The 28 April 2021 Kopili Fault Earthquake (Mw 6.1) in Assam Valley of North East India: Seismotectonic Appraisal. Pure Appl. Geophys., 179, 2167-2182.

    • Abhishek Kundu, Devajit Hazarika, D. K. Yadav, Parthapratim Ghosh (2022). Crustal thickness and Poisson’s ratio variations in the Siang Window and adjoining areas of the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 231, 105225. 15 June 2022

    • Neeharika Shukla, Devajit Hazarika, A. Kundu, S. Mukhopadhyay (2022). Spatial variations of crustal thickness and Poisson's ratio in the northeastern region of India based on receiver function analysis. Geological Journal, 57(12).

    • Abhishek Kundu, Devajit Hazarika (2022). Estimation of source parameters and scaling relations for local earthquakes of Lohit Valley in Arunachal Himalaya, Northeast India. Geological Journal.

    • Arpita Paul, Devajit Hazarika (2022). Occurrences of low-stress drop earthquakes in the eastern Ladakh-Karakoram zone and their tectonic implications. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X 7 (2022) 100080.

    • Somak Hajra, Devajit Hazarika, Subhendu Mondal, Sanjit K. Pal, P.N.S. Roy (2022) Deformation of the upper crust in the Kumaon Himalaya analyzed from seismic anisotropy and gravity lineament studies. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 322, 106827.
    • Devajit Hazarika. S. Hajra, A., Kundu, M., Bankhwal, N., Kumar, C.C. Pant (2021). Imaging the Moho and Main Himalayan Thrust beneath the Kumaon Himalaya: Constraints from receiver function analysis. Geophysical Journal International, 224, 858–870.

    • Somak Hajra, Devajit Hazarika, N. Kumar, S.K. Pal, P.N.S. Roy (2021) Seismotectonics and stress perspective of the Kumaon Himalaya: A geophysical evidence of a Lesser Himalayan duplex, Tectonophysics, 806, 228801
    • Arpita Paul, Devajit Hazarika, Monika Wadhawan, Naresh Kumar (2021). Upper mantle anisotropy in the northwest Himalaya and Ladakh-Karakoram zone based on SKS splitting analysis. Journal of Geodynamics, 144, 101817.

    • Naresh Kumar, Devajit Hazarika and Kalachand Sain (2022). Earthquakes: Basics of seismology and seismic computational techniques. Basics of Computational Geophysics (Chapter 4), ISBN: 9780128205136, pp. 432.
    • D.K. Yadav, Devajit Hazarika, N. Kumar, A K. Singh (2021). Microseismicity study in the Siang Valley of Arunachal Himalaya: Tectonic Implications of the 2019 Mw 5.9 Mechuka earthquake. Himalayan Geology, 42(2), 290-298.
    • Kumar, A., Srivastava,P., Sen, K., Morell, K., Hazarika, D., (2020).Evidence for late Quaternary brittle deformation and back thrusting within the Indus Suture Zone, Ladakh Himalaya. Tectonophysics, 792, 228597.

    • Vaishali Shukla, Vishal Chauhan, Naresh Kumar, Devajit Hazarika (2020). Assessment of Rn-222 continuous time series for the identification of anomalous changes during moderate earthquakes of the Garhwal Himalaya, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 166 (2020) 109327
    • Abhishek Kundu, Devajit Hazarika, Somak Hajra, A. K. Singh, Parthapratim Ghosh (2020). Crustal Thickness and Poisson’s Ratio variations in the northeast India–Asia collision zone: Insight into the Tuting-Tidding Suture zone, Eastern Himalaya. J. Asian Earth Sc., 188, 104099.

    • N. Kumar, A. Aoudia, M. Guidarelli, V.G. Babu, Devajit Hazarika, D.K. Yadav (2019) Delineation of lithosphere structure and characterization of the Moho geometry under the Himalaya–Karakoram–Tibet collision zone using surface-wave tomography. Geological Society London, Special Publication, 481, 19–40,

    • S. Hajra, Devajit Hazarika, M. Bankhwal, A. Kundu, N. Kumar (2019). Average crustal thickness and Poisson’s ratio beneath the Kali River Valley, Kumaon Himalaya, J. Asian Earth Sc., 173, 176-188.
    • Devajit Hazarika, S. Hajra, M. Bankhwal, S. K. Verma, D. K. Yadav, N. Kumar (2018). Crustal structure beneath Multi-parametric Geophysical Observatory at Ghuttu, Garhwal Himalaya, Himalayan Geology, 39(2), 62-70.
    • D. K. Bora, Devajit Hazarika, Arpita Paul, K. Borah, J. M. Borgohain (2018). Shear wave splitting and crustal anisotropy in the Shillong-Mikir plateau of Northeast India, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol.175, pp-243-255.
    • Devajit Hazarika, M. Wadhawan, Arpita Paul, Naresh Kumar, K. Borah (2017). Geometry of the Main Himalayan Thrust and Moho beneath Satluj valley, Northwest Himalaya: constraints from receiver function analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, Vol. 122, 2929-2945. (Impact Factor: 3.35)
    • Devajit Hazarika, Arpita Paul, M. Wadhawan, N. Kumar, K. Sen, C. C. Pant (2017). Seismotectonics of the Trans-Himalayan, eastern Ladakh, India: Constraints from moment tensor solutions of local earthquake data, Tectonophysics, Vol. 698, pp.38–46. (Impact Factor: 2.693).
    • Arpita Paul, Devajit Hazarika, M. Wadhawan (2017). Shear wave splitting and crustal anisotropy in the Eastern Ladakh-Karakoram zone, northwest Himalaya, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Vol. 140, 122-134. (Impact Factor: 2.335)
    • M. Wadhawan, Devajit Hazarika, A. Paul, N. Kumar, S.S.Thakur, V.Gupta (2017).Crustal thickness and Poisson's ratio variation in the Satluj Valley,Northwest Himalaya, Himalayan Geology, 38 (1), 38-48. (Impact Factor: 0.35)
    • D. K. Yadav, N Kumar, Devajit Hazarika, D. N. Yadav, M. Wadhawan (2017).Seismicity and Tectonics of Kinnaur Himalaya and adjoining region inferred from focal mechanism solutions and stress tensor inversion, Himalayan Geology, 38(1), pp- 49-55. (Impact Factor: 0.35)
    • N. Kumar, V. Chauhan, S. Dhamodharan, G. Rawat, Devajit Hazarika, P.K.R. Gautam (2017). Prominent precursory signatures observed in soil and water radon data at multi-parametric geophysical observatory, Ghuttu for Mw 7.8 Nepal earthquake, Current Science, 112, pp-907-909. (Impact Factor: 0.967)
    • N. Kumar, P. Kumar, V. Chauhan, Devajit Hazarika (2017). Variable anelastic attenuation and site effect in estimating source parameters of various major earthquakes including Mw 7.8 Nepal and Mw 7.5 Hindu kush earthquake by using far‑field strong‑motion data, Int. Jour. Earth Sci., October 2017, Volume 106, Issue 7, pp 2371–2386. (Impact Factor: 2.283)

    • D. K., Yadav, Devajit Hazarika, N. Kumar (2016). Seismicity and stress inversion study in the Kangra–Chamba region of North-west Himalaya, Natural Hazards, Vol. 82, pp 1393-1409, DOI 10.1007/s11069-016-2251-y. (Impact Factor: 1.833).
    • D. K. Yadav, N. Kumar, Devajit Hazarika (2015). Stress pattern of Northwest Himalaya: stress coupling between Higher Himalaya and South Tibetan Plateau. GEO-HAZARDS:RECENT RESEARCH: Proceeding of International Geo-Hazard Research symposium held at HNB Garhwal University, Uttarakhand, Page no.: 111-119.
    • Devajit Hazarika, K. Sen, N. Kumar (2014). Characterizing the intra-crustal low velocity zone beneath northwest India-Asia collision zone. Geophysical Journal International, 199, 1338-1353 (Impact Factor: 2.724).
    • D. Bora, Devajit Hazarika, K. Bora, S.S. Rai, S. Baruah (2014). Crustal shear-wave velocity structure beneath northeast India from teleseismic receiver function analysis. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 90, 1-14 (Impact Factor: 2.335).
    • Devajit Hazarika, D.K. Yadav Sriram V., Rai, A. (2013). Upper mantle anisotropy beneath northeast India-Asia collision zone from shear-wave splitting analysis. Int. Jour. Earth Sci., 102, 2061–2076, (Impact Factor: 2.283).

    • Devajit Hazarika, N. Kumar, D.K. Yadav (2013). Crustal thickness and Poisson’s ratio variations across northwest Himalaya and Eastern Ladakh and its tectonic implications. Acta Geophysica, 61, pp. 905-922. (Impact Factor: 0.968).

    • Devajit Hazarika, B. R. Arora, C. Bora, (2012).""Crustal structure and deformation in the northeast India–Asia collision zone: constraints from receiver function analysis"", Geophysical Journal International, 188, pp.737–749, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05267. (Impact Factor: 2.724).
    • N. Kumar, V.M Choubey, G. Rawat, Devajit Hazarika (2013), “Earthquake precursory research in western Himalaya based on the MPGO data”, Acta Geophysica, 61(4), 977-999, ((Impact Factor: 0.968).

    • J. R. Kayal, S. S. Arefiev, S. Baruah, Devajit Hazarika, N. Gogoi, J. L. Gautam, M. Sanoujam, C. Dorbath, R. Tatevossian, Santanu Baruah (2012). “Large and Great Earthquakes in the Shillong Plateau - Assam valley area of Northeast India Region: Pop-up and Transverse Tectonics”, Tectonophysics, 532–535, 186–192, (Impact Factor: 2.693).

    • A. Kalita, Devajit Hazarika, S. Baruah (2011). Separation of stresses from heterogeneous focal mechanism data in the Indo-Myanmar region using Multiple Inverse method. Memoir of Geological Society of India, 77, 149-159.
    • J.R. Kayal, S.S. Arifiev, S. Baruah, R. Tatavossian, N. Gogoi, M. Sanjoum, J.L. Gautom, Devajit Hazarika, D. Borah (2010). The 2009 Bhutan and Assam felt earthquake (Mw 6.3 and 5.1) in northeast Himalaya region and the active Kopili fault, DST Newsletter (Deep Continental Studies in India), Vol.20, No.1, pp.13-17.
    • Saurabh Baruah, Devajit Hazarika, Aditya Kalita, Sumana Goswami, (2010), “Intrinsic and scattering attenuation in Chedrang Fault and its vicinity – the rupture area of Great Assam earthquake of 12 June 1897 (M = 8.7)”, Current Science, Vol. 99, No. 6, pp.775-784. (Impact Factor: 0.967)
    • J.R. Kayal, S.S. Arifiev, S. Baruah, R. Tatavossian, N. Gogoi, M. Sanjoum, J.L. Gautom, Devajit Hazarika, D. Borah, (2010) “The 2009 Bhutan and Assam felt earthquakes (Mw 6.3 and 5.1) at the Kopili fault in the northeast Himalaya region”, Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 273–281. (Impact Factor: 1.71)
    • Devajit Hazarika, Saurabh Baruah and Naba Kumar Gogoi (2009). “Attenuation of coda waves in North Eastern Region of India”. Journal of Seismology, 13, 141-160. (Impact Factor: 1.089).
    • Devajit Hazarika, V. Sriram, B.R. Arora, C. Bora (2009). “Crustal structure of Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis derived from receiver function analysis – some preliminary results.” DST Newsletter (Deep Continental Studies in India), Vol.19, No.1, pp.16-20.
    • Saurabh Baruah and Devajit Hazarika (2008), “GIS based tectonic map of NER India”, Current Science, Vol.95, No.2, pp-176-177. (Impact Factor: 0.967)
    • Saurabh Baruah, Devajit Hazarika, Naba Kumar Gogoi and P. Solomon Raju (2007), “The effects of attenuation and site response on the spectra of microearthquakes in the Jubilee Hills region of Hyderabad, India”, J. Earth Syst Sci, Vol. 116, pp.37-47. (Impact Factor: 0.955)
    • J.R. Kayal, S.S. Arefiev, S. Baruah, Devajit Hazarika, N. Gogoi, A. Kumar, S.N. Chowdhury and S. Kalita (2006), “Shillong Plateau Earthquakes in Northeast India Region: Complex Tectonic Model”, Current Science, Vol. 91, No. 1, pp.109-114. (Impact Factor: 0.967).

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    Supervised 6 Ph. D. scholars

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