S42C
The M7.8 25 April 2015 Nepal Earthquake II

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
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:  Gavin P Hayes, USGS National Earthquake Information Center Golden, Golden, CO, United States and Mark Simons, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Gavin P Hayes, USGS National Earthquake Information Center Golden, Golden, CO, United States
10:20
Ground Motions during the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal, Earthquake: An Expected Event that Defied Expectations (Invited) (59426)
Susan Elizabeth Hough1, Stacey Servito Martin2, Amod Mani Dixit3, Surya Shrestha4, Ramesh Guragain4, Elizabeth S Cochran3, Danielle F Sumy5, Adam T Ringler6, Daniel E McNamara7, Domniki Asimaki8, Roger G Bilham9, David Mencin10, John Galetzka10, James H Luetgert11, Lingsen Meng12, Jean-Paul Ampuero8 and Sudhir Rajaure13, (1)USGS, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (3)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (4)NSET, Kathmandu, Nepal, (5)Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)USGS, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (7)USGS National Earthquake Information Center Golden, Golden, CO, United States, (8)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)University of Colorado, CIRES,, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)UNAVCO, Inc. Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (12)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (13)Tribuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
10:35
Coseismic landslides associated with the 2015 Gorkha earthquake sequence in Nepal (Invited) (65844)
Marin Kristen Clark1, Sean F Gallen2, A. Joshua West3, Deepak Chamlagain4, Kevin Roback1, Katherine Lowe1, Nathan A Niemi5, William Greenwood1, Julie Bateman1 and Dimitrios Zekkos1, (1)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Geological Insitute, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Tribhuvan University, Department of Geology, Tri-Chandra College, Kathmandu, Nepal, (5)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
10:50
Landscape response to the Mw7.9 Gorkha earthquake (66849)
Jens Martin Turowski1, Christoff Andermann1, Robert Behling2, Kristen L Cook1, Robert Emberson2, Niels Hovius1, Odin Marc3, Mahdi Motagh2, Sigrid Roessner2, Christoph Sens-Schoenfelder4, Sean F Gallen5 and Maarten Lupker6, (1)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany, (4)GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (5)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (6)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
11:05
International Aftershock Forecasting: Lessons from the Gorkha Earthquake (67507)
Andrew Jay Michael, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States
11:20
Field Reconnaissance Subsequent to the M7.8 April 25, 2015 Gorkha Earthquake and Implications to Past and Current Paleoseismic Investigations along the Himalayan Frontal Thrust (Invited) (67337)
Steven G Wesnousky1,2, Stephen Angster1,2, Ian Kerens Driscoll Pierce3, Eric Jameson Fielding4, Deepak Chamlagain5, Dipendra Gautam5, Bishal Nath Upreti5, Yasuhiro Kumahara6, Takashi Nakata7, R. Jayangondaperumal8 and Pradeep Srivastava8, (1)Nevada Seismological Lab, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)Center for Neotectonic Studies, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (3)Center for Neotectonic Studies and Nevada Seismological Laboratory, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Lab Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Tribhuvan University, Department of Geology, Tri-Chandra College, Kathmandu, Nepal, (6)Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima, Japan, (7)Hiroshima University, Department of Geography, Hiroshima, Japan, (8)Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, India
11:35
Did Structural Segmentation of the Main Himalayan Thrust Control the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha Earthquake Rupture in Nepal? (77575)
Judith Hubbard1, Rafael V Almeida2, Anna E Foster2, Soma Nath Sapkota3, Paula Burgi2 and Paul Tapponnier1, (1)Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, (2)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (3)National Seismological Centre, Department of Mines and Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal
11:50
Boundary element analysis of active mountain building and stress heterogeneity proximal to the 2015 Nepal earthquake (61090)
T Ben Thompson and Brendan J Meade, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
12:05
Postseismic Deformation Following the April 2015 M7.8 Nepal Earthquake Measured Using Sentinel-1A Interferometry (71924)
Thomas Francis Ingleby1, Tim J Wright2, Pablo J González2, Andrew J Hooper2 and John R Elliott3, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, COMET, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (3)University of Oxford, COMET, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
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