Himalayan earthquakes: a review of historical seismicity and early 21st century slip potential

R Bilham - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
This article summarizes recent advances in our knowledge of the past 1000 years of
earthquakes in the Himalaya using geodetic, historical and seismological data, and …

Building the Himalaya from tectonic to earthquake scales

L Dal Zilio, G Hetényi, J Hubbard… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Convergence of the Indian Plate towards Eurasia has led to the building of the
Himalaya, the highest mountain range on Earth. Active mountain building involves a …

Landscape evolution and deduction of surface deformation in the Soan Dun, NW Himalaya, India

GC Kothyari, N Joshi, AK Taloor, RS Kandregula… - Quaternary …, 2019 - Elsevier
The consequence of strain accumulation along various Himalayan thrusts is manifested in
shaping the topography and present day lanscape features of the Himalaya. Consequently …

Higher Himalaya in the Bhagirathi section (NW Himalaya, India): its structures, backthrusts and extrusion mechanism by both channel flow and critical taper …

S Mukherjee - International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2013 - Springer
Abstract The Higher Himalayan Crystalline (HHC) in the Bhagirathi river section (India) on
fieldwork reveals two extensional ductile top-to-N/NE shear sub-zones—the 'South Tibetan …

[HTML][HTML] Paleoseismological investigation along the back thrust bounding the northern limb of Janauri Anticline, NW Himalaya, India

GC Kothyari, N Joshi, SP Naik, AK Taloor… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Regardless of numerous paleoseismological studies along the active front of the Himalayas,
it still lacks precision with respect to earthquake recurrence, rupture, slip mechanism, etc …

Partitioning of convergence in Northwest Sub-Himalaya: estimation of late Quaternary uplift and convergence rates across the Kangra reentrant, North India

VC Thakur, M Joshi, D Sahoo, N Suresh… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Springer
The Kangra reentrant constitutes a~ 80-km-wide zone of fold-thrust belt made of Cenozoic
strata of the foreland basin in NW Sub-Himalaya. Earlier workers estimated the total long …

Paleoseismic evidence from trench investigation along Hajipur fault, Himalayan Frontal Thrust, NW Himalaya: implications of the faulting pattern on landscape …

JN Malik, AK Sahoo, AA Shah, DP Shinde… - Journal of structural …, 2010 - Elsevier
The study area falls within the mesoseismal zone of 1905 Kangra earthquake (Mw 7.8). Two
parallel NNW–SSE striking active fault scarps named as Hajipur Faults (HF1 and HF2) along …

Drainage conformation and transient response of river system in thrust segmentation of Northwest Himachal Himalaya, India

N Joshi, GC Kothyari, CC Pant - Quaternary International, 2021 - Elsevier
In the northwest Himalayan region, the ongoing out-of-sequence deformation caused
emergence of Back Thrust (BT) around 43ka, which attributed the growth of anticlines …

Active tectonics of Himalayan frontal fault system

VC Thakur - International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2013 - Springer
Abstract In the Sub-Himalayan zone, the frontal Siwalik range abuts against the alluvial plain
with an abrupt physiographic break along the Himalayan Frontal Thrust (HFT), defining the …

Paleoseismic evidence of the CE 1505 (?) and CE 1803 earthquakes from the foothill zone of the Kumaon Himalaya along the Himalayan Frontal Thrust (HFT), India

JN Malik, SP Naik, S Sahoo, K Okumura, A Mohanty - Tectonophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
The importance of understanding earthquake sources in India and Nepal was underscored
by the disastrous 2015 earthquakes of 25 April Gorkha (Mw 7.8) and 12 May Kodari (Mw 7.3 …