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 …
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 …
Geologic reconstructions of the Main Himalayan Thrust in Nepal show a laterally extensive midcrustal ramp, hypothesized to form the downdip boundary of interseismic locking. Using …
SG Wesnousky - Seismological Society of America, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Geological, historical, and geophysical observations show that the entire Himalayan arc is poised to produce a sequence of great earthquakes, possibly similar to that which occurred …
High death tolls from recent earthquakes show that seismic risk remains high globally. While there has been much focus on seismic hazard, large uncertainties associated with exposure …
A Brice, R Jayangondaperumal, RS Priyanka… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Whether the Main Himalayan Thrust can host a single surface-rupturing event in the Himalaya with a rupture length of> 700 km remains controversial. Previous …
CP Rajendran, T Singh, M Mukul… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - eprints.iisc.ac.in
The last few years have witnessed consistent growth in paleoseismic investigations and active fault research in India. An overview of relevant publications during 2016-2020 …
Abstract The historical 1 September 1803 Garhwal–Kumaon Himalaya earthquake (Mw 8.1) was a solitary Himalayan earthquake reported felt widely in the Indo-Gangetic Plain with …
M Rizza, L Bollinger, SN Sapkota… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Charnath Khola is a large river crossing the Himalayan thrust system in the region devastated by the great M8. 3 1934 Bihar‐Nepal earthquake. Fluvial terraces are …