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Seismically active structures of the Main Himalayan Thrust revealed before, during and after the 2015 Mw 7.9 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal

L B Adhikari
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B P Koirala
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M Bhattarai
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C Timsina
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R M Gupta
N Wendling-Vazquez
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D Batteux
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Hélène Lyon-Caen

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The M w 7.9 2015 April 25 Gorkha earthquake is the latest of a millenary-long series of large devastating Himalayan earthquakes. It is also the first time a large Himalayan earthquake and its aftershocks were recorded by a local network of seismic stations. In the 5 yr following the main shock, more than 31 000 aftershocks were located by this permanent network within the ruptured area, including 14 362 events with M L greater than 2.5, 7 events with M L > 6, including one large aftershock with M w 7.2 on 2015 May 12. In 2020, 5 yr after the main shock, the seismicity rate along the ruptured fault segments was still about 5 times higher than the background seismicity before the Gorkha earthquake. Several bursts of earthquakes, sometimes organized in clusters, have been observed from a few days to several years after the main shock. Some of these clusters were located at the same place as the clusters that happened during the decades of interseismic stress build-up that preceded the large earthquake. They also happened in the vicinity of the high frequency seismic bursts that occurred during the main shock. These heterogeneities contribute to a persistent segmentation of the seismicity along strike, possibly controlled by geological structural complexities of the Main Himalayan Thrust fault. We suggest that these pre-2015 clusters revealed the seismo-geological segmentation that influences both the coseismic rupture and the post-seismic relaxation.
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hal-03810637 , version 1 (14-10-2022)

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L B Adhikari, M Laporte, L Bollinger, J Vergne, S Lambotte, et al.. Seismically active structures of the Main Himalayan Thrust revealed before, during and after the 2015 Mw 7.9 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal. Geophysical Journal International, 2022, 232, pp.451 - 471. ⟨10.1093/gji/ggac281⟩. ⟨hal-03810637⟩
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