Source characteristics of the 2015 MW 7.8 Gorkha (Nepal) earthquake and its MW 7.2 aftershock from space geodesy

• Main Authors: Feng, Wanpeng, Lindsey, Eric, Barbot, Sylvain, Samsonov, Sergey, Dai, Keren, Li, Peng, Li, Zhenhong, Almeida, Rafael, Chen, Jiajun, Xu, Xiaohua
• Other Authors: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Gorkha earthquake; ALOS2
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83399; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41412
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

On April 25, 2015, a destructive MW 7.8 earthquake struck the capital of Nepal, Kathmandu, killing more than 8800 people and destroying numerous historical structures. We analyze six coseismic interferograms from several satellites (ALOS-2, Sentinel-1 A, and RADARSAT-2), as well as three-dimensional...