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The M7.8 25 April 2015 Nepal Earthquake I

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
305 (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Mark Simons, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Gavin P Hayes, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States
Chairs:  Mark Simons, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Gavin P Hayes, USGS National Earthquake Information Center Golden, Golden, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Gavin P Hayes, USGS National Earthquake Information Center Golden, Golden, CO, United States
08:00
Multi-Array Back-Projections of The 2015 Gorkha Earthquake With Physics-Based Aftershock Calibrations (77731)
Lingsen Meng1, Ailin Zhang1 and Yuji Yagi2, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
08:15
Slip pulse characteristics, Kathmandu basin resonance and high-frequency waves radiation during unzipping of locked MHT by the 2015, Mw 7.8 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal. (Invited) (69303)
Jean-Philippe Avouac1,2, Lingsen Meng3, Diego Melgar4, Shenji Wei5, John R Elliott6, Romain Jolivet2, Teng Wang7, Yehuda Bock8, Victoria Stevens2, Jean Paul Ampuero9, John Galetzka10, Joachim F Genrich2, Jianghui Geng8, Susan E Owen11, Prithvi Lal Shrestha12, Angelyn W Moore11, Lok Bijay Adhikari12 and Kenneth W Hudnut13, (1)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, (6)University of Oxford, COMET, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (7)Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States, (8)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (9)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)UNAVCO, Inc. Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (12)Nepal Department of Mines and Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (13)USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States
08:30
Slip kinematics and ground motions of the 2015 Mw7.8 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake imaged with 5Hz GPS data and ALOS-2 InSAR constraints (72404)
John Galetzka1, Diego Melgar2, Joachim F Genrich3, Jianghui Geng4, Susan E Owen5, Eric O Lindsey6, Xiaohua Xu6, Prithvi Lal Shrestha7, Lok Bijay Adhikari7, Yehuda Bock4 and Jean-Philippe Avouac8, (1)UNAVCO, Inc. Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (7)Nepal Department of Mines and Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (8)California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States
08:45
Source model and ground shaking of the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal Mw7.8 earthquake (72796)
Shengji Wei, Nanyang Technological University, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
09:15
Effect of topography on slip inversions using geodetic data: application to the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake (82154)
Gareth Funning and Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
09:30
Aftershocks of the M7.8 Gorkha (Nepal) Earthquake: Early Results from Project NAMASTE (77786)
Marianne S. Karplus, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States
09:45
Systematic Detections of Early Aftershocks and Remotely Triggered Seismicity in China Following the 2015 Mw7.8 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake (85857)
Zhigang Peng1, Jing Wu2, Dongdong Yao1, LU LI3, Xiaofeng Meng1, Baoshan Wang4, Weijun Wang5 and Chenyu Li1, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Institute of Geophysics, China Eathquake Administration, Beijing, China, (4)IGP Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, (5)IES Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China
 
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