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Geologists Deploy to Nepal to Study Earthquakes

Researcher(s) Keywords:

  1. tectonics
  2. seismology
  3. Glaciology
  4. geophysics
  5. education
  6. earthquakes
  7. Earth models
  8. STEM minority education

Featured Researcher(s):

Karplus, Marianne
College: Science
Department: Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences
Velasco, Aaron
College: Science
Department: Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences
Geologists Deploy to Nepal to Study Earthquakes
Date: September 11, 2015



Five months after a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal, the ground still shakes.

But these days, University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) geologists are ready — monitoring the Himalaya’s tremors closely. “There are magnitude four or five aftershocks every couple of days,” said Marianne Karplus, Ph.D., assistant professor of geological sciences, who recently returned from doing field work in the region.


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