Journal
ACTA GEOPHYSICA
Volume 66, Issue 4, Pages 461-477Publisher
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
DOI: 10.1007/s11600-018-0140-3
Keywords
Strong motion; Himalayan seismicity; Displacement spectra; Response spectra; Site amplification; Modeling
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- Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
- MOES, Government of India [MoES-800ESD/2014]
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On 25th April, 2015 a hazardous earthquake of moment magnitude 7.9 occurred in Nepal. Accelerographs were used to record the Nepal earthquake which is installed in the Kumaon region in the Himalayan state of Uttrakhand. The distance of the recorded stations in the Kumaon region from the epicenter of the earthquake is about 420-515 km. Modified semi-empirical technique of modeling finite faults has been used in this paper to simulate strong earthquake at these stations. Source parameters of the Nepal aftershock have been also calculated using the Brune model in the present study which are used in the modeling of the Nepal main shock. The obtained value of the seismic moment and stress drop is 8.26 x 10(25) dyn cm and 10.48 bar, respectively, for the aftershock from the Brune model .The simulated earthquake time series were compared with the observed records of the earthquake. The comparison of full waveform and its response spectra has been made to finalize the rupture parameters and its location. The rupture of the earthquake was propagated in the NE-SW direction from the hypocenter with the rupture velocity 3.0 km/s from a distance of 80 km from Kathmandu in NW direction at a depth of 12 km as per compared results.
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