Structural interpretation of the great earthquakes of the last millennium in the central Himalaya

JL Mugnier, A Gajurel, P Huyghe… - Earth-Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
A major question about the Himalaya remains open: does a great earthquake (like the Mw~
8.1 1934 earthquake) release all the strain stored by the Tibet–India convergence during the …

A review on out-of-sequence deformation in the Himalaya

S Mukherjee - Special Publications, 2015 - lyellcollection.org
Out-of-sequence deformation in the Himalaya has been caused mainly by thrusting. Out-of-
sequence thrusts, usually north-to NE-dip** foreshear planes, occur inside the Sub …

Human capital accumulation and disasters: Evidence from the Pakistan earthquake of 2005

T Andrabi, B Daniels, J Das - Journal of Human Resources, 2023 - jhr.uwpress.org
In 2005 a large earthquake struck northern Pakistan. Exposure to the earthquake was
plausibly exogenous to household and individual characteristics, and households received …

Location of largest earthquake slip and fast rupture controlled by along‐strike change in fault structural maturity due to fault growth

C Perrin, I Manighetti, JP Ampuero… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Earthquake slip distributions are asymmetric along strike, but the reasons for the asymmetry
are unknown. We address this question by establishing empirical relations between …

Roughness of fault surfaces over nine decades of length scales

T Candela, F Renard, Y Klinger, K Mair… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We report on the topographic roughness measurements of five exhumed faults and thirteen
surface earthquake ruptures over a large range of scales: from 50 μm to 50 km. We used …

Landslide susceptibility map** using GIS and weighted overlay method: a case study from NW Himalayas, Pakistan

M Basharat, HR Shah, N Hameed - Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2016 - Springer
Landslide susceptibility map is very important for engineers, geologist, and land use planner
for prevention and mitigation of landslide hazard in the area. This paper presents landslide …

The shape of the Himalayan “Arc”: An ellipse pinned by syntaxial strike-slip fault tips

L Jiao, P Tapponnier… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Trans-Himalayan geodetic data show that, between both syntaxes, India/Asia convergence
is steadily oriented≈ N20° E. However, surface faulting near both syntaxes, along the 2005 …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring land subsidence using PS-InSAR technique in Rawalpindi and islamabad, Pakistan

J Khan, X Ren, MA Hussain, MQ Jan - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Land subsidence is a major concern in vastly growing metropolitans worldwide. The most
serious risks in this scenario are linked to groundwater extraction and urban development …

Evolution of earthquake-triggered landslides in the Kashmir Himalaya, northern Pakistan

GA Khattak, LA Owen, U Kamp, EL Harp - Geomorphology, 2010 - Elsevier
The influence of the 08 October 2005 Kashmir earthquake and subsequent snow melt and
monsoon rainfall on slope stability was evaluated using repeat photography in the Kashmir …

Holocene shortening across the Main Frontal Thrust zone in the eastern Himalaya

WP Burgess, A Yin, CS Dubey, ZK Shen… - Earth and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
How plate-boundary processes control intra-continental deformation is a fundamental
question in Earth sciences. Although it is long known that the active India–Asia convergence …