Back-projection imaging of earthquakes

E Kiser, M Ishii - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Back-projection analysis of earthquakes is a type of array processing that images the source
of seismic waves coherently recorded at stations throughout the seismic network. The …

Seismotectonic perspectives on the Himalayan arc and contiguous areas: Inferences from past and recent earthquakes

K Rajendran, RM Parameswaran, CP Rajendran - Earth-Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Spread over countries including Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China, the Himalayan
mountain chain, the most spectacular result of the Indo-Eurasian plate collision, is a locus of …

New empirical earthquake source‐scaling laws

KKS Thingbaijam, PM Mai… - Bulletin of the …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We develop new empirical scaling laws for rupture width W⁠, rupture length L⁠, rupture
area A⁠, and average slip D⁠, based on a large database of rupture models. The database …

Rupture process of the Mw = 7.9 2015 Gorkha earthquake (Nepal): Insights into Himalayan megathrust segmentation

R Grandin, M Vallée, C Satriano… - Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the rupture process of the 25 April 2015 Gorkha earthquake (Mw= 7.9) using
a kinematic joint inversion of teleseismic waves, strong motion data, high‐rate GPS, static …

Strong ground motion in the Kathmandu Valley during the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake

N Takai, M Shigefuji, S Rajaure, S Bijukchhen… - Earth, Planets and …, 2016 - Springer
On 25 April 2015, a large earthquake of Mw 7.8 occurred along the Main Himalayan Thrust
fault in central Nepal. It was caused by a collision of the Indian Plate beneath the Eurasian …

The 2015 Gorkha earthquake: a large event illuminating the Main Himalayan Thrust fault

Z Duputel, J Vergne, L Rivera… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The 2015 Gorkha earthquake sequence provides an outstanding opportunity to better
characterize the geometry of the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT). To overcome limitations due …

Coseismic and early postseismic deformation due to the 25 April 2015, Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake from InSAR and GPS measurements

KM Sreejith, PS Sunil, R Agrawal… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Analysis of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and Global Positioning
System (GPS) data reveals coseismic and early postseismic (4–88 days) surface …

Constraining central Himalayan (Nepal) fault geometry through integrated thermochronology and thermokinematic modeling

S Ghoshal, N McQuarrie, DM Robinson… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Constraining the subsurface structural geometry of the central Himalaya continues to prove
difficult, even after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake and the resulting insights into the trajectory …

Improving back projection imaging with a novel physics‐based aftershock calibration approach: A case study of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake

L Meng, A Zhang, Y Yagi - Geophysical Research Letters, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2015 Mw 7.8 Nepal‐Gorkha earthquake with casualties of over 9000 people
was the most devastating disaster to strike Nepal since the 1934 Nepal‐Bihar earthquake …

Source characteristics of the 2015 MW 7.8 Gorkha (Nepal) earthquake and its MW 7.2 aftershock from space geodesy

W Feng, E Lindsey, S Barbot, S Samsonov, K Dai, P Li… - Tectonophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract On April 25, 2015, a destructive MW 7.8 earthquake struck the capital of Nepal,
Kathmandu, killing more than 8800 people and destroying numerous historical structures …