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 …

Climate controls on erosion in tectonically active landscapes

BA Adams, KX Whipple, AM Forte, AM Heimsath… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The ongoing debate about the nature of coupling between climate and tectonics in mountain
ranges derives, in part, from an imperfect understanding of how topography, climate …

Geo-and seismo-tectonics of Eastern Himalaya: Exploring earthquake source zones from foredeep to Tibetan hinterland

S Dasgupta, B Mukhopadhyay… - … of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 2021 - Elsevier
In this review we present our knowledge base on the seismicity and related tectonics of
around 1200+ km stretch of the Eastern Himalaya from eastern Nepal to Arunachal …

Spatial and temporal variation of the ambient noise environment of the Sikkim Himalaya

M Uthaman, C Singh, A Singh, N Jana, AK Dubey… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Ambient noise characteristics are perused to assess the station performance of 27 newly
constructed broadband seismic stations across Sikkim Himalaya and adjoining Himalayan …

Influence of inherited Indian basement faults on the evolution of the Himalayan Orogen

L Godin, R Soucy La Roche, L Waffle… - Geological Society …, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
Indian basement faults, which bound three orogen-perpendicular palaeotopographic ridges
of Precambrian Indian basement south of the Himalaya, extend to the base of the Indian …

Classification of slope processes based on multitemporal DInSAR analyses in the Himalaya of NW Bhutan

B Dini, S Daout, A Manconi, S Loew - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Slope deformation in mountainous terrain can be driven by different processes, the nature of
which is either gravitational and irreversible or seasonal and reversible, the latter induced by …

Evidence for an imbricated lower crust and its role in accommodating crustal shortening in Sikkim Himalaya

A Singh, G Kumar, C Singh, MR Kumar, M Uthaman… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Geometrical heterogeneity of the subducting Indian continental crust along the Himalaya‐
Tibet collision zone remains enigmatic. Mass budget estimates describing shortening across …

Seismology at school in Nepal: A program for educational and citizen seismology through a low-cost seismic network

S Subedi, G Hetényi, P Denton, A Sauron - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Nepal, located above the convergent India-Eurasia plate boundary, has repeatedly
experienced devastating earthquakes. During the 2015 magnitude 7.8 Gorkha earthquake …

Evidence of the 1950 great Assam earthquake surface break along the Mishmi Thrust at Namche Barwa Himalayan Syntaxis

I Singh, A Pandey, RL Mishra… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Paleoseismological trenching at Kamlang Nagar along the Mishmi Thrust in the
Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis, aided by radiocarbon analyses of charcoals yielding ages of …

Establishing primary surface rupture evidence and magnitude of the 1697 CE Sadiya earthquake at the Eastern Himalayan Frontal thrust, India

A Pandey, R Jayangondaperumal, G Hetényi… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Historical archives refer to often recurring earthquakes along the Eastern Himalaya for which
geological evidence is lacking, raising the question of whether these events ruptured the …