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Journal Article
Published: 01 December 2017
Earthquake Spectra (2017) 33 (1_suppl): 115–132.
...Menzer Pehlivan, M. EERI; Christopher Madden Madugo, M. EERI; Amy Macdonald; Deepak Rayamajhi; Youssef M. A. Hashash, M. EERI; Binod Tiwari Hydropower infrastructure, the primary source of electricity in Nepal, experienced severe damage following the 2015 Gorkha earthquake sequence, resulting...
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Published: 01 December 2017
Earthquake Spectra (2017) 33 (1_suppl): 275–298.
... infill walls: (a) an illustration of the failure mechanism ( Meli et al. 2011 ) and (b) a shear failure of a RC frame building with masonry infills due to the 2015 Nepal earthquake (photo: D.K. Maharjan). Post-earthquake building surveys are important for assessing the extent and type of damage...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 December 2017
Earthquake Spectra (2017) 33 (1_suppl): 1–20.
...Bret Lizundia, M. EERI; Rachel A. Davidson, M. EERI; Youssef M. A. Hashash, M. EERI; Rob Olshansky, M. EERI On 25 April 2015, a M w 7.8 earthquake struck near Gorka, Nepal. The earth-quake and its aftershocks caused over 8,790 deaths and 22,300 injuries; a half a million homes were destroyed...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 December 2017
Earthquake Spectra (2017) 33 (1_suppl): 415–438.
... the Eurasian plate at rates of several centimeters a year ( JICA 2002 , Pandey et al. 1999 , Uprety et al. 2008 ). The 25 April 2015 M w 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake occurred in a seismic gap on the Main Himalayan thrust ( Dixit et al. 2015 , EERI 2016 , Lekkas et al. 2017 , Rupakhety et al. 2017...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 November 2015
Seismological Research Letters (2015) 86 (6): 1587–1592.
...Rémy Bossu; Maud Laurin; Gilles Mazet-Roux; Frédéric Roussel; Robert Steed Abstract This study investigates how people affected by the 2015 Ghorka earthquake sequence in Nepal have adopted and used the LastQuake smartphone application and associated Twitter robot, which offer rapid earthquake...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 December 2017
Earthquake Spectra (2017) 33 (1_suppl): 133–146.
...Sital Uprety, M. EERI; Juliet Iwelunmor; Nora Sadik; Bipin Dangol; Thanh H. Nguyen The 2015 Nepal earthquake destroyed over half a million buildings including the drinking water and sanitation infrastructures, causing the displacement of around 2.8 million people. However, knowledge of how...
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Published: 01 December 2017
Earthquake Spectra (2017) 33 (1_suppl): 435–451.
... magnitude) were the largest to affect Nepal since the 1934 great Bihar earthquake (estimated 8.0 magnitude). The 2015 events resulted in nearly 9,000 fatalities and 22,000 injuries. An estimated 8 million people (a third of the Nepalese population) were directly affected, and over half a million homes...
Journal Article
Published: 01 June 2025
Jour. Geol. Soc. India (2025) 101 (6): 782–786.
...B.K. Rastogi ABSTRACT The April 25, 2015, M w 7.8 destructive Gorkha earthquake occurred at Barpak village 77 km NW of Kathmandu in eastern Nepal at a depth of 8.2 km, having an MMI = IX and PGA 0.17-0.19 g. The earthquake caused the death of about 9000 people, injured over 22300, and collapsed...
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Published: 01 December 2017
Earthquake Spectra (2017) 33 (1_suppl): 197–218.
... collapsed and 16,971 RC frame houses were damaged due to the Gorkha earthquake sequence ( NPC 2015 ). Most of the collapsed structures were nonengineered or followed prescriptive design codes—for example, NBC 201 ( NBC 1994b ) and NBC 205 ( NBC 1994c )—known in Nepal as mandatory rules of thumb (MRT...
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Published: 01 December 2017
Earthquake Spectra (2017) 33 (1_suppl): 321–343.
... ) α (rad) η Basantapur Column 4.24 0.16 0.96 Dharahara Tower 0.25 0.12 0.98 Narayan Temple 1.93 0.24 0.91 6 12 2016 5 10 2017 © 2017 Earthquake Engineering Research Institute 2017 Earthquake Engineering Research Institute The 2015 Nepal...
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Published: 01 December 2017
Earthquake Spectra (2017) 33 (1_suppl): 243–273.
... masonry (URM) buildings that were damaged by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal, and reports on the performance of palaces, giving an overview on the failures suffered by significant examples of these monumental buildings. Field reconnaissance was completed through both rapid, in-situ visual assessment...
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Journal Article
Published: 14 March 2017
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2017) 107 (3): 1293–1306.
...S. K. Singh; D. Srinagesh; D. Srinivas; D. Arroyo; X. Pérez‐Campos; R. K. Chadha; G. Suresh; G. Suresh Abstract We analyze ground motions produced by the 25 April 2015 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake ( M w 7.9) and five of its larger aftershocks ( 5.3 ≤ M w ≤ 7.2 ) which were recorded in the distance...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 November 2022
Earthquake Spectra (2022) 38 (4): 2970–2993.
... the effectiveness and relevance of a number of machine learning techniques for analyzing spatially distributed seismic damage after an earthquake at the regional scale. The basic structural parameters of a portfolio of buildings and the post-earthquake damage surveyed after the Nepal 2015 earthquake are analyzed...
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Journal Article
Published: 06 May 2020
Seismological Research Letters (2020) 91 (4): 2399–2408.
... the damaging 25 April 2015 M 7.8 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal. Because of the continued earthquake risk presented by the continental collisional plate boundary at the Main Himalayan thrust and the high population densities in the region, collecting and processing data related to recent large earthquakes...
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Journal Article
Published: 19 November 2019
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2020) 110 (1): 26–37.
...Masumi Yamada; Thakur Kandel; Koji Tamaribuchi; Abhijit Ghosh ABSTRACT In this article, we created a well‐resolved aftershock catalog for the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal by processing 11 months of continuous data using an automatic onset and hypocenter determination procedure. Aftershocks were...
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Journal Article
Published: 05 March 2019
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2019) 109 (2): 672–687.
... Society of America On 25 April 2015, an M w  7.8 earthquake hit the Gorkha region in central Nepal. It was the largest earthquake in this region since the great 1934 M w  8.2 Nepal–Bihar earthquake ( Chen and Molnar, 1977 ). Although the 2015 event killed approximately 9000 people...
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Journal Article
Published: 03 July 2018
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2018) 108 (4): 1947–1961.
... to resolve smaller‐scale slip features. Our synthetic tests show that this new multiscale SA strategy works better at converging to the global minimum solution than the original SA approach. We also apply this new strategy to the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake. The results show that our recovered slip...
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Published: 01 December 2017
Earthquake Spectra (2017) 33 (1_suppl): 403–416.
...Sarah E. DeYoung; Samantha Penta People in Nepal labeled as low-caste carry the double burden of simultaneous denial of access to resources and to public space in which to discuss caste issues. Following the 2015 earthquake, issues regarding caste were pushed onto the national agenda through...
Journal Article
Published: 01 December 2017
Earthquake Spectra (2017) 33 (1_suppl): 185–195.
...Yanbing Bai, M. EERI; Bruno Adriano; Erick Mas; Shunichi Koshimura This paper takes the 2015 Nepal earthquake as a case study to explore the use of post-event dual polarimetric synthetic aperture radar images for earthquake damage assessment. The radar scattering characteristics of damaged...
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Published: 01 December 2017
Earthquake Spectra (2017) 33 (1_suppl): 21–34.
...Sujan Raj Adhikari; Gopi Baysal; Amod Dixit; Stacey S. Martin; Mattieu Landes; Remy Bossu; Susan E. Hough We develop a unified near-field shaking intensity map for the 25 April 2015 M w 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake by synthesizing intensities derived from macroseismic effects that were determined...
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