Detection and potential early warning of catastrophic flow events with regional seismic networks

KL Cook, R Rekapalli, M Dietze, M Pilz, S Cesca… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Early warning is a critical potential tool for mitigating the impacts of large mass wasting and
flood events, a major hazard in the Himalaya. We used data from a dense seismic network in …

Lower edge of locked Main Himalayan Thrust unzipped by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake

JP Avouac, L Meng, S Wei, T Wang, JP Ampuero - Nature Geoscience, 2015 - nature.com
Large earthquakes are thought to release strain on previously locked faults. However, the
details of how earthquakes are initiated, grow and terminate in relation to pre-seismically …

Slip pulse and resonance of the Kathmandu basin during the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal

J Galetzka, D Melgar, JF Genrich, J Geng, S Owen… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Detailed geodetic imaging of earthquake ruptures enhances our understanding of
earthquake physics and associated ground shaking. The 25 April 2015 moment magnitude …

Interseismic coupling on the main Himalayan thrust

VL Stevens, JP Avouac - Geophysical Research Letters, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We determine the slip rate and pattern of interseismic coupling on the Main Himalayan
Thrust along the entire Himalayan arc based on a compilation of geodetic, interferometric …

Characterizing the Main Himalayan Thrust in the Garhwal Himalaya, India with receiver function CCP stacking

WB Caldwell, SL Klemperer, JF Lawrence… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
We use common conversion point (CCP) stacking of Ps receiver functions to image the
crustal structure and Moho of the Garhwal Himalaya of India. Our seismic array of 21 …

India plate angular velocity and contemporary deformation rates from continuous GPS measurements from 1996 to 2015

S Jade, TS Shrungeshwara, K Kumar, P Choudhury… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We estimate a new angular velocity for the India plate and contemporary deformation rates
in the plate interior and along its seismically active margins from Global Positioning System …

Segmentation of the Main Himalayan Thrust illuminated by Bayesian inference of interseismic coupling

L Dal Zilio, R Jolivet… - Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We use a recent compilation of geodetic data of surface displacements in a fully Bayesian
approach to derive a probabilistic estimate of interseismic coupling along the Main …

Pre-and post-seismic deformation related to the 2015, Mw7. 8 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal

A Gualandi, JP Avouac, J Galetzka, JF Genrich… - Tectonophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
We analyze time series from continuously recording GPS stations in Nepal spanning the pre-
and post-seismic period associated to the M w 7.8 Gorkha earthquake which ruptured the …

Strong seismic coupling underneath Garhwal–Kumaun region, NW Himalaya, India

RK Yadav, VK Gahalaut, AK Bansal, SP Sati… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
No great earthquake has occurred in the Garhwal–Kumaun region of NW Himalaya in the
past 500 years or more. We report results of continuous GPS measurements from 28 sites …

Electrical resistivity cross-section across the Garhwal Himalaya: Proxy to fluid-seismicity linkage

G Rawat, BR Arora, PK Gupta - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
Magnetotelluric (MT) measurements along a profile cutting across the Garhwal Himalaya of
India are inverted to obtain 2-D electrical resistivity structures of the Himalayan wedge and …