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Title: Source characteristics of the 2015 MW 7.8 Gorkha (Nepal) earthquake and its MW 7.2 aftershock from space geodesy
Authors: Feng, Wanpeng
Lindsey, Eric
Barbot, Sylvain
Samsonov, Sergey
Dai, Keren
Li, Peng
Li, Zhenhong
Almeida, Rafael
Chen, Jiajun
Xu, Xiaohua
Keywords: Gorkha earthquake
ALOS2
Issue Date: 2016
Source: Feng, W., Lindsey, E., Barbot, S., Samsonov, S., Dai, K., Li, P., et al. (2016). Source characteristics of the 2015 MW 7.8 Gorkha (Nepal) earthquake and its MW 7.2 aftershock from space geodesy. Tectonophysics, in press.
Series/Report no.: Tectonophysics
Abstract: On April 25, 2015, a destructive MW 7.8 earthquake struck the capital of Nepal, Kathmandu, killing more than 8800 people and destroying numerous historical structures. We analyze six coseismic interferograms from several satellites (ALOS-2, Sentinel-1 A, and RADARSAT-2), as well as three-dimensional displacements at six GPS stations to investigate fault structure and slip distribution of the Gorkha earthquake. Using a layered crustal structure, the best-fit slip model shows that the preferred dip angle of the mainshock fault is 6 ± 3.5° and the major slip is concentrated within depths of 8–15 km. The maximum slip of ~ 6.0 m occurs at a depth of 11 km, 70 km south east of the epicenter. The coseismic rupture extends ~ 150 km eastward of the epicentre with a cumulative geodetic moment of 7.8 × 1020 Nm, equivalent to an earthquake of MW 7.84. We also investigate the MW 7.2 aftershock on 12 May 2015 using another three postseismic interferograms from ALOS2, RADARSAT-2, and Sentinel-1 A. The InSAR-based best-fit slip model of the largest aftershock implies that its major slip is next to the eastern lower end of the mainshock rupture with a similar maximum slip of ~ 6 m at a depth of ~ 13 km. This study generates various coseismic geodetic measurements to determine the source parameters of the MW 7.8 Gorkha earthquake and 12 May MW 7.2 afershock, providing an additional chance to understand the local fault structure and slip extent.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83399
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41412
ISSN: 0040-1951
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.02.029
Research Centres: Earth Observatory of Singapore 
Rights: © 2016 Elsevier.
Fulltext Permission: none
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