U33A:
The 25 April 2015 M7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, Earthquake Sequence: Lessons Learned
Note: Abstract submissions to Union sessions are by invitation only.
Session ID#: 9686
Session Description:
The 2015 Mw7.8 Nepal earthquake is the largest event to strike the mountainous country in over 80 years. The mainshock and large aftershocks taken a heavy toll on lives and property in cities and villages throughout the country. Geodetic, remote sensing, seismic, and other data will provide unprecedented illumination of this event, and the ground motions it generated within and beyond the Kathmandu Valley. Although the earthquake was in many ways expected, preliminary data and analyses raise questions of critical importance for both earthquake science and seismic hazard. Forensic engineering investigations will also be critical to understand the performance of traditional versus more modern structures. We invite a broad range of contributions focusing on scientific, engineering, and social lessons of this important earthquake, as well as contributions focusing on implications for future hazard in the Himalayan region.
Primary Convener: Ramesh P Singh, Chapman University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Orange, CA, United States
Convener: Susan Elizabeth Hough, USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs: Susan Elizabeth Hough, USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States and Ramesh P Singh, Chapman University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Orange, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison: Susan Elizabeth Hough, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Pasadena, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Rebecca O Bendick, University of Montana, Geosciences, Missoula, MT, United States, David Mencin, EarthScope Consortium, Data Services, Remote, United States, Ellen Knappe, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, Bishal Nath Upreti, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, Abdelkrim Aoudia, The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Earth System Physics, Trieste, Italy, John Galetzka, UNAVCO, Inc. Boulder, Boulder, United States and Roger Bilham, University of Colorado, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Amod Mani Dixit, Surya Narayan Shrestha and Ramesh Guragain, National Society for Earthquake Technology - Nepal (NSET), Kathmandu, Nepal
Susan E Owen1, Eric Jameson Fielding2, Sang-Ho Yun2, Han Yue3, Jascha Polet4, Bryan V Riel5, Cunren Liang3, Mong-Han Huang2, Frank Webb6, Mark Simons7, Angelyn W Moore8, Piyush S Agram9, William D Barnhart10, Hook Hua8, Zhen Liu1, Pietro Milillo11, Gian Franco Sacco8, Paul Alan Rosen12 and Gerald Manipon2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Pomona, CA, United States, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Earth Sciences, Hangzhou, China, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (7)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (8)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)Jet Propulsion Lab Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (11)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, United States, (12)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Jean Paul Ampuero, California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Lingsen Meng, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Susan Elizabeth Hough, USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States, Stacey Servito Martin, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore and Domniki Asimaki, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Durgesh C Rai, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
Stacey Servito Martin, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; Nanyang Technological University, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Susan Elizabeth Hough, USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States, Vineet Kumar Gahalaut, National Centre for Seismology, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Delhi, India and Charleen Hung, Unaffiliated, Kleinmachnow, Germany
Brian D Collins, USGS Landslide Hazards Program, Moffett Field, United States and Randall Jibson, U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, CO, United States
Tom Parsons, USGS, Moffett Field, United States and Margarita Segou, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, United Kingdom