T43B:
Himalayan Earthquakes: Observations, Processes, and Tectonics Posters
Submit an Abstract to this Session
Session ID#: 27343
Session Description:
The Himalayan region is a tectonically active continental collision zone adjacent to numerous densely populated urban areas. Understanding the processes and tectonics of large Himalayan earthquakes is extremely important for estimating seismic hazards and organizing risk mitigation efforts. Earthquake rupture modeling, fault geometries and dynamics, lithospheric structure and rheologies, and the evolving state of regional stress all contribute to our understanding of the tectonic setting. We seek contributions from scientists who work on myriad aspects of Himalayan tectonics from the perspective of different disciplines including seismology, geodesy, geophysics, paleoseismology, structural geology, and geodynamics. We especially encourage submissions related to the recent 2015 large earthquakes in Nepal, the April 25, 2015 Gorkha magnitude 7.8 and the May 12, 2015 magnitude 7.3 earthquakes, the largest earthquakes to occur in the central segment of the Himalaya in 80 years.
Primary Convener: Marianne S Karplus, University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States
Conveners: John Nabelek, Oregon State University, CEOAS, Corvallis, OR, United States, Jean-Philippe Avouac, California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States and Aaron A Velasco, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States
Chairs: Marianne S Karplus, University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States and Aaron A Velasco, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison: Marianne S Karplus, University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
R Arun Prasath1, Ajay Paul1 and Sandeep Singh2, (1)Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Earth Sciences, Roorkee, India
Arpita Paul, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, India
William Joseph Shinevar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, Mark D Behn, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Greg Hirth, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States and Oliver E Jagoutz, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States
Fawz Naim, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India and Mrinal Kanti Mukherjee, Indian School of Mines, Applied Geology, Dhanbad, India
Matthieu Alexis Ferry1, Thomas Roth2, Ritz Jean-Francois2 and Rodolphe Cattin3, (1)Géosciences Montpellier, Montpellier Cedex 05, France, (2)Géosciences Montpellier, Montpellier, France, (3)University of Montpellier, Géosciences Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Neng Xiong, Rice University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science, Houston, TX, United States and Fenglin Niu, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Anhui, China
Luca Dal Zilio, ETH Zürich, Institute of Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences, Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland, Romain Jolivet, École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, UMR 8538, Laboratoire de Géologie, Paris, France and Ylona van Dinther, Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands
Jie Chen1, Boxuan Zhang1 and Jinhui Yin2, (1)Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, (2)State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China
Abhijit Ghosh1, Matthew Mendoza1, Bo LI2, Marianne S Karplus3, John Nabelek4, Soma Nath Sapkota5, Lok Bijay Adhikari6, Simon L Klemperer7 and Aaron A Velasco3, (1)University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, (2)Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany, (3)The University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Resource Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States, (4)Oregon State University, CEOAS, Corvallis, United States, (5)Department of Mines and Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (6)Nepal Department of Mines and Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (7)Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
Marianne S Karplus, University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States, Mohan Pant, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, Aaron A Velasco, The University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Resource Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States, John Nabelek, Oregon State University, CEOAS, Corvallis, United States, Vaclav Matej Kuna, COAS, Corvallis, OR, United States, Soma Nath Sapkota, Department of Mines and Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, Abhijit Ghosh, University of California Riverside, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States, Matthew Mendoza, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, Lok Bijay Adhikari, Nepal Department of Mines and Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal and Simon L Klemperer, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
Tak Ming Ho1, Keith Priestley1 and Steven W Roecker2, (1)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Troy, United States
Hiroe Miyake1, Kazuki Koketsu1, Hiroaki Kobayashi1, Babita Sharma2, O P Mishra2, Toshiaki Yokoi3, Takumi Hayashida4, Mukunda Bhattarai5 and Soma Nath Sapkota6, (1)Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (2)National Centre for Seismology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi, India, (3)Building Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, (4)Building Research Institute, IISEE, Ibaraki, Japan, (5)National Seismological Centre, Department of Mines and Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (6)Department of Mines and Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal
