Fault morphology controls rupture size: Evidence from the 2015 Gorkha earthquake sequence in Nepal

Qiang Qiu1, Emma Hill2, Sylvain Barbot3, Judith Hubbard1, Wanpeng Feng4, Eric Ostrom Lindsey5, Lujia Feng2, Keren Dai6, Sergey V Samsonov7 and Paul Tapponnier1, (1)Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, (2)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, (3)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Institute of geophysics China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, (5)University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States, (6)School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, United Kingdom, (7)Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada