Journal Article

Slip pulse and resonance of the Kathmandu basin during the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal

Moore, A, Pratt-Sitaula, B, Szeliga, W, Shrestha, P, Normandeau, J, Geng, J, Owen, S, Flouzat, M, Koirala, B, Hudnut, KW, Bock, Y, Sapkota, SN, Kandel, T, Bhattarai, TN, Upreti, BN, Sitaula, BP, Maharjan, N, Xu, X, Adhikari, LB, Fend, M, Galetzka, J, Bhatterai, M, Timsina, C, Rajaure, S, Gupta, R, Avouac, J-P, Bollinger, L, Melgar, D, Lindsey, EO, Genrich, JF, Gautam, U

2015

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The Nepal Geodetic Array was funded by internal funding to JPA from Caltech and DASE and by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, through Grant GBMF 423.01 to the Caltech Tectonics Observatory and was maintained thanks to NSF Grant EAR 13-5136. Andrew Miner and the PAcific Northwest Geodetic Array (PANGA) at Central Washington University are thanked for technical assistance with the construction and operation of the Tribhuvan University-CWU network. Additional funding for the TU-CWU network came from United Nations Development Programme and Nepal Academy for Science and Technology. The high rate data were recovered thanks to a rapid intervention funded by NASA (US) and the Department of Foreign International Development (UK). We thank Trimble Navigation Ltd and the Vaidya family for supporting the rapid response as well. The accelerometer record at KATNP was provided by USGS. Research at UC Berkeley was funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through grant GBMF 3024. A portion of this work was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The GPS data were processed by ARIA (JPL) and the Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center. The effort at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography was funded by NASA grants NNX14AQ53G and NNX14AT33G. ALOS-2 data were provided under JAXA (Japan) PI Investigations 1148 and 1413. JPA thanks the Royal Society for support. We thank Susan Hough, Doug Given, Irving Flores and Jim Luetgert for contribution to the installation of this station.

• Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac6383,American Association for the Advancement of Science,The American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Subject: Basins / Damage / Earthquakes / Geodetics / Global Positioning System / Global positioning systems / GPS / Grounds / Physics / Resonance / Rupture / Seismic activity / Shaking / Slip