2025
(19) Ritima Das, Faris Hazma, Utpal Saikia*, Himanshu Mittal (2025), Seismic Characteristics and Tectonic Processes of the 2015 Gorkha and Kodari Earthquakes: Insights from Seismicity, b-Value, Stress Field, and Crustal Heterogeneity, Environmental Earth Sciences, 84 (536), 1-22 .
(18) Davin David, Utpal Saikia*, Ritima Das, Sarmistha Bhagawati (2025), Surface wave attenuation beneath the Himalaya-Tibet region constrained by fundamental mode of Rayleigh wave from the Hi-CLIMB dataset, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 107404. (with MS project student of Davin David)
2024
(17) Ritima Das, Utpal Saikia* and Gokul Kumar Saha (2024) Understanding the structure of crust and shallow upper mantle beneath western Tibet through the joint inversion of Rayleigh wave group velocity dispersion with interpolated receiver functions, Annals of Geophysics, 67 (1), SE105, doi.10.4401/ag-8984
(16) Utpal Saikia* and Davin David (2024). Source parameter and tectonic implications of small earthquake originated in South India, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2024.107235 (with MS project student of Davin David)
(15) Utpal Saikia* and Amisha Baiju (2024). Variations of coda Q in the crust of Southern Granulite Terrain (SGT), India. Acta Geophysica, doi.org/10.1007/s11600-024-01401-8 (with semester project student of Amisha Baiju)
(14) Utpal Saikia*, Anjaly S Menon, Ritima Das, and Himanshu Mittal (2024). Estimation of Source Parameters of Local Earthquakes originated near Idukki Reservoir, Kerala. Acta Geophysica, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-024-01348-w (with semester project student of Anjaly S Menon)
2023
13. Ritima Das, Utpal Saikia and Gokul Kumar Saha (2022). The crust and upper mantle structure beneath the Bangladesh and its effects on seismic hazard. Geohazards: Analysis, Modelling, and Forecasting. (Published by Springer)
2021
12. Utpal Saikia*, Catherine Rychert, Nicholas Harmon, and J.M. Kendall (2021). Upper Mantle Anisotropic Shear Velocity Structure at the Equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge Constrained by Surface wave analysis from the PI-LAB experiment. Geophysics Geochemistry Geosystems, doi: 10.1029/2020GC009495.
11. Utpal Saikia*, Catherine Rychert, Nicholas Harmon, and J.M. Kendall (2021). Seismic attenuation at the Equatorial mid Atlantic ridge constrained by surface wave analysis from PILAB experiment. Geophysics Geochemistry Geosystems, doi.org/10.1029/2021GC010085.
2020
10.Utpal Saikia*, Catherine Rychert, Nicholas Harmon, and J.M. Kendall (2020), Sediment structure at the Equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge Constrained by Seafloor Compliance using data from the PI-LAB experiment. Marine Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1007/s11001-020-09402-0.
2019
(9) Utpal Saikia*, V. Pavan Kumar and S.S. Rai (2019). Complex upper mantle deformation beneath the Dharwar craton inferred from high-density splitting measurements: Distinct lateral variation from west to east. Tectonophysics, 755, 10-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.02.003
2018
(8)Utpal Saikia* and S.S. Rai (2018). Seismicity, Reference Velocity model and Earthquake mechanics of South India. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America .Do:10.1785/0120160369.
2017
(7) Utpal Saikia*, Ritima Das and S.S. Rai (2017). Possible magmatic underplating beneath the west coast of India and adjoining Dharwar craton: Imprint from Archean crustal evolution to breakup of India and Madagascar. Earth and Planetary Science Letter, 462, 1-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/-j.epsl.2017.01.004
(6) Sivaram krishnavajjhalam, Utpal Saikia, Nagaraju Kanna and Dinesh Kumar (2017). Attenuation of high frequency seismic body waves and coda waves in Southern India. Pure and Applied Geophysics, doi:10.1007/s00024-017-1574-2.
(5) Sivaram Krishnavajjhala, Mahesh Reddy, Raghukanth STG, Utpal Saikia and Nagaraju Kanna (2017). Estimation of strong ground motion in Southern Peninsular India by Empirical Greens Function Method. Current Science, 112(11), 2273-2283.
2016
(4) Utpal Saikia*, S.S. Rai, Rishikesh Meena, BNV Prasad and Kajaljyoti Borah (2016). Moho offset beneath the Western Ghat and contact of Archean Crusts of Dharwar craton, India. Tectonophysics, 672, 177-189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.02.007
2015
(3) Ritima Das, Utpal Saikia and S.S. Rai (2015). The deep geology of South India inferred from Moho depth and Vp/Vs ratio. Geophysical Journal International, 203 (2), 910-926. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv351
(2) P. Mahesh, Sandeep Gupta, Utpal Saikia and S.S. Rai (2015). Seismotectonics and crustal stress field in the Kumaon-Garhwal Himalaya. Tectonophysics, 655, 124-138. http://.doi.org/10.1016/-j.tecto.2015.05.016
2014
(1) Utpal Saikia* S.S Rai, M Subrahmanyam, Satyajit Dutta, Somasish Bose, Kajaljyoti Borah and Rishikesh Meena (2014). Accurate location and focal mechanism of small earthquakes near Idduki Reservoir, Kerala: Implication for earthquake genesis. Current Science,107 (11), 1885.