Ground Motions from the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, Earthquake Constrained by a Detailed Assessment of Macroseismic Data

• Main Authors: Martin, Stacey Servito, Hough, Susan E., Hung, Charleen
• Other Authors: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Nepal earthquake; Ground motions; Gorkha earthquake
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104422; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38855
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

To augment limited instrumental recordings of the Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake on 25 April 2015 (Nepali calendar: 12 Baisakh 2072, Bikram Samvat), we collected 3831 detailed media and first-person accounts of macroseismic effects that include sufficiently detailed information to assign intensiti...