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The 2015 April 25 Gorkha (Nepal) earthquake and its aftershocks: implications for lateral heterogeneity on the Main Himalayan Thrust

AutorKumar, Ajay CSIC ORCID ; Singh, Shashwat K.; Mitra, S.; Priestley, K. F.; Dayal, Shankar
Palabras claveEarthquake source observations
Seismicity and tectonics
Continental margins: convergent
Asia
Crustal structure
GPS measurements
Collision zone
Southern Tibet
Rupture
Slip
Sequence
India
Segmentation
Calibration
Fecha de publicación2017
EditorOxford University Press
CitaciónGeophysical Journal International, 208 (2): 992-1008 (2017)
ResumenThe 2015 Gorkha earthquake (M-w 7.8) occurred by thrust faulting on a similar to 150 km long and similar to 70 km wide, locked downdip segment of the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT), causing the Himalaya to slip SSW over the Indian Plate, and was followed by major-to-moderate aftershocks. Back projection of teleseismic P-wave and inversion of teleseismic body waves provide constraints on the geometry and kinematics of the main-shock rupture and source mechanism of aftershocks. The main-shock initiated similar to 80 km west of Katmandu, close to the locking line on the MHT and propagated eastwards along similar to 117 degrees. azimuth for a duration of similar to 70 s, with varying rupture velocity on a heterogeneous fault surface. The main-shock has been modelled using four subevents, propagating from west-to-east. The first subevent (0-20 s) ruptured at a velocity of similar to 3.5 km s(-1) on a similar to 6 degrees N dipping flat segment of the MHT with thrust motion. The second subevent (20-35 s) ruptured a similar to 18 degrees. Wdipping lateral ramp on the MHT in oblique thrust motion. The rupture velocity dropped from 3.5 km s(-1) to 2.5 km s(-1), as a result of updip propagation of the rupture. The third subevent (35-50 s) ruptured a similar to 7 degrees. N dipping, eastward flat segment of the MHT with thrust motion and resulted in the largest amplitude arrivals at teleseismic distances. The fourth subevent (50-70 s) occurred by left-lateral strike-slip motion on a steeply dipping transverse fault, at high angle to the MHT and arrested the eastward propagation of the main-shock rupture. Eastward stress build-up following the main-shock resulted in the largest aftershock (M-w 7.3), which occurred on the MHT, immediately east of the main-shock rupture. Source mechanisms of moderate aftershocks reveal stress adjustment at the edges of the main-shock fault, flexural faulting on top of the downgoing Indian Plate and extensional faulting in the hanging wall of the MHT.
Versión del editorhttps://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggw438
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/148100
DOI10.1093/gji/ggw438
ISSN0956-540X
E-ISSN1365-246X
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