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COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INVESTIGATING FAULT GEOMETRIES AND RUPTURE PROCESSES IN THE NEPAL HIMALAYA FOLLOWING THE APRIL 25,2015 GORKHA EARTHQUAKE

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INVESTIGATING FAULT GEOMETRIES AND RUPTURE PROCESSES IN THE NEPAL HIMALAYA FOLLOWING THE APRIL 25,2015 GORKHA EARTHQUAKE
PI: Marianne Karplus
Co-PI: Aaron Velasco
Sponsor: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Geological Sciences
Amount awarded: $213,221

Following the April 25, 2015 Gorkha magnitude 7.8 and the May 12, 2015 magnitude 7.3 earthquakes, a collaborative team from Oregon State University, U.C. Riverside, Stanford University, and the University of Texas at El Paso deployed an NSF RAPID-funded aftershock array (the “NAMASTE” array) of 45 seismic stations for 11 months across the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT) fault where the large earthquakes occurred. In this proposal, this same collaborative team will analyze the newly collected data set specifically to study the geometry of faults, including the MHT fault, the composition of the crust and upper mantle in the region, the rupture process of this earthquake sequence, and the broader geotectonic setting in the Himalaya and southern Tibet.

Posting date: Fri, 09/23/2016

Award start date: Mon, 08/01/2016
Award end date: Tue, 07/31/2018