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Pandey, M.R., Tandukar, R.P., Avouac, J.P., Lavé, J. and Massot, J.P. (1995). Interseismic strain accumulation on the Himalayan crustal ramp (Nepal). Geophysical Research Letters 22: doi: 10.1029/94GL02971. issn: 0094-8276. |
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The Department of Mines and Geology has been monitoring the seismicity of the Central Himalayas of Nepal since 1985. Intense microseismicity and frequent medium-size earthquakes (mL<4) tend to cluster beneath the topographic front of the Higher Himalaya. This 10--20 km deep seismicity also correlates with a zone of localized uplift that has been evidenced from geodetic data. Both microseismic and geodetic data indicate strain accumulation on a mid-crustal ramp that had been previously inferred from geological and geophysical evidence. This ramp connects a flat decollement under the Lesser and Sub-Himalaya with a deeper decollement under the Higher Himalaya, and probably acts as a geometric asperity where strain and stress build up during the interseismic period. The large Himalayan earthquakes could nucleate there and probably activate the whole flat-and-ramp system up to the blind thrusts of the Sub-Himalaya. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1995 |
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Keywords
Tectonophysics, Continental contractional orogenic belts, Seismology, Seismicity and seismotectonics, Geodesy and Gravity, Seismic deformations |
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Publisher
American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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