I have been working in the area of Seismic Hazard Assessment and Seismic Microzonation studies of megacities and industrial cities in India. We have completed seismic microzonation for cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Haldia and Talchir and also did probabilistic seismic hazard analysis of some of the dam sites, industrial sites and nuclear power plants sponsored by government as well as industry.
I am also working on the integrated geophysical technique more specifically gravity and magnetic methods for shallow surface investigation and locating mineral deposits. We have successfully identified Chromite deposits in the Sukinda belt and also identified possible Uranium deposits in the South Purulia Shear Zone to give a lead for exploration.
In collaboration with ONGC, we worked on reservoir characterization.
In the low to moderate seismicity areas like Talchir and Kolkata, where there is a sparse in seismic recordings, we used hybrid method which combines two computational techniques; modal summation and finite difference to produce multiphase synthetic seismograms. The estimated PGA, Response Spectral Ratio (RSR) as a function of frequency from scenario earthquake is the useful parameters for seismic microzonation.
We used the Delhi Telemetric Network and estimated coda attenuation (Qc), Crustal heterogeneity and seismotectonics for National Capital.
I have published more than 50 research publications on referred journals and more than 60 research papers in the national and International conferences, four book chapters, and four other publications. I have guided ten doctoral theses (four completed and six continuing), 10 master’s thesis and more than 60 undergraduate theses.
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Site-specific modelling of SH and P-SV waves for microzonation study of kolkata metropolitan city, India Vaccari F., Walling M. Y., Mohanty W. K., Nath S. K., Verma A. K., Sengupta A. , Panza G. F. By Pure and Applied Geophysics 168 67-91 (2011)
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Ground motion in Delhi from future large/great earthquakes in the central seismic gap of the Himalayan arc Singh S. K., Mohanty W. K., Bansal B. , Roonwal G. S. By Bulletin of Seismological Society of America 92 555-569 (2002)
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An overview on the seismic zonation and microzonation studies in India Walling M. Y., Mohanty W. K. By Earth Science Reviews 96 67-91 (2009)
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Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for Kakrapar Atomic Power Station, Gujrat, India Mohanty W. K., Verma A. K. By Natural Hazards 69 919-952 (2013)
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Crustal heterogeneity and seismotectonics of the national capital region, Delhi, India. Gupta S., Mohanty W. K., Prakash R. , Shukla A. K. By Pure and Applied Geophysics 170 607-616 (2012)
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Estimation of Coda wave attenuation for the National Capital Region, Delhi, India, using local earthquakes Mohanty W. K., Prakash R. , Suresh G. , Shukla A. K., Walling M. Y., Srivastava J. P. By Pure and Applied Geophysics 166 429-449 (2009)
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Sub-surface structure of a craton-mobile belt interface: evidence from geological and gravity studies across the Rengali Province - Eastern Ghats Belt boundary, eastern India Mandal A., Gupta S. , Mohanty W. K., Misra S. By Tectonophysics 662 140-152 (2015)
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Integrated geological and geophysical studies for delineation of chromite deposits: A case study from Tangarparha, Orissa, India Mohanty W. K., Mandal A. , Gupta S. , Misra S. By Geophysics 76 173-183 (2011)
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Assessment of Similarity between Well-Logs using Synchronization Measures Verma A. K., Routray A. , Mohanty W. K. By IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 11 2032-2036 (2014)
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A novel pre-processing scheme to improve the prediction of sand fraction from seismic attributes using neural networks Chaki S., Routray A. , Mohanty W. K. By IEEE J. Sel. Topics Appl. Earth Observations and Remote Sens 8 1808-1820 (2015)
Principal Investigator
- Historical Evidence, legends and Geophysical Modelling to Assess the Ancient River channels and Associated Heritage belt in the Odisha Coastal belt
- Scientific Study on the Construction of the Embankment on Pachwara South Coal Block along Bansloi River
Co-Principal Investigator
- An Integrated Geophysical Approach to Understand Hot-springs and Geothermal Resources of Odisha Ministry of Earth Sciences
- Fault Mapping and Facies Prediction using BIG Data Analytics GEOPIC, ONGC
- Integrated Information System and Knowledge Discovery Platform for ONGC Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited
- Vulnerability and Risk Assessment due to Various Environmental Drivers in a Climate Change Scenario over Eastern India Department of Science and Technology, Climate Change Programme (SPLICE)
Ph. D. Students
Anupama Sharma
Area of Research: Application of shallow surface geophysics and remote sensing in neotectonic studies
Anurima Mishra
Area of Research: Seismology
Chirashree Srabani Rath
Area of Research:
Gagandeep Singh
Area of Research: Geophysical Exploration
Hemant Kumar Pradhan
Area of Research: Geoexploration and Environment
Javed Ali
Area of Research: Reservoir Characterization
Mohd Shahabuddin
Area of Research: Seismic Hazard Microzonation
Mohd Zuhair
Area of Research: Seismology
Prakash Kumar
Area of Research: Shallow surface Investigation
Priyank Pathak
Area of Research: Gravity and Magnetic
Ramesh Satla
Area of Research: Geothermal Energy Resource
Shashwat Kumar Singh
Area of Research: Seismology
Subhrajit Ghosh
Area of Research: Gravity and Magnetic and Seismotectonics
Suvankar Samantaray
Area of Research: Tectonics and crustal structure
Suvodip Chakraborty
Area of Research: Direction of Arrival Estimation
