Figure 1 from Morell et al. (IMAGE)

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Figure 1 from Morell et al.

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Figure 1. (A) Date and rupture patches for large historical Himalayan earthquakes (Rajendran and Rajendran, 2005; Kumar et al., 2006) with reference to the Uttarakhand region of the central seismic gap, and the physiographic transition 2 of Uttarakhand (UPT2 ) and Nepal (NPT2 ) (Wobus et al., 2006a). (B) Simplified geologic map for area shown in A (Célérier et al., 2009a; Webb et al., 2011). Focal mechanisms of all earthquakes within the recording period (Mw 5-7) are shown with location as white circle. Earthquake locations are based on Ni and Baranzangi (1984) and the National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) catalog (earthquake.usgs.gov). Focal mechanisms are based on Ni and Baranzangi (1984) or the Global Centroid-Moment-Tensor (CMT) catalog (globalcmt.org). STD--South Tibetan Detachment; THS--Tethyan Himalayan Sequence; MCT--Main Central Thrust; GHS--Greater Himalayan Sequence; LHS--Lesser Himalayan Sequence; MBT--Main Boundary Thrust; MFT--Main Frontal Thrust.

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