Journal article
Geomorphic and geologic controls of geohazards induced by Nepal's 2015 Gorkha earthquake.
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Kargel JS
Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. kargel@hwr.arizona.edu dshugar@uw.edu uharitashya1@udayton.edu.
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Leonard GJ
Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
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Shugar DH
School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, USA. kargel@hwr.arizona.edu dshugar@uw.edu uharitashya1@udayton.edu.
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Haritashya UK
Department of Geology, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, USA. kargel@hwr.arizona.edu dshugar@uw.edu uharitashya1@udayton.edu.
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Bevington A
Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, Prince George, BC, Canada.
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Fielding EJ
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
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Fujita K
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
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Geertsema M
Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, Prince George, BC, Canada.
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Miles ES
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Steiner J
Institute of Environmental Engineering, Federal Institute of Technology-ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Anderson E
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA.
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Bajracharya S
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Bawden GW
NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA.
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Breashears DF
GlacierWorks, Marblehead, MA, USA.
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Byers A
The Mountain Institute, Elkins, WV, USA.
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Collins B
U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
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Dhital MR
Central Department of Geology, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Donnellan A
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
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Evans TL
Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
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Geai ML
CVA Engineering, Suresnes, France.
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Glasscoe MT
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
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Green D
NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA.
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Gurung DR
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Heijenk R
Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, Prince George, BC, Canada.
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Hilborn A
Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
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Hudnut K
Earthquake Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Pasadena, CA, USA.
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Huyck C
ImageCat, Long Beach, CA, USA.
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Immerzeel WW
Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
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Liming J
State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth's Dynamics, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
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Jibson R
U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, CO, USA.
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Kääb A
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway.
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Khanal NR
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Kirschbaum D
Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.
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Kraaijenbrink PD
Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
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Lamsal D
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
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Shiyin L
Cold and Arid Regions of Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China.
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Mingyang L
School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
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McKinney D
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
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Nahirnick NK
Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
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Zhuotong N
School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.
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Ojha S
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
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Olsenholler J
Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
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Painter TH
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
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Pleasants M
Department of Geology, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, USA.
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Pratima KC
Arizona Remote Sensing Center, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
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Yuan QI
Cold and Arid Regions of Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China.
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Raup BH
National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
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Regmi D
Himalayan Research Center, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Rounce DR
Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
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Sakai A
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
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Donghui S
Cold and Arid Regions of Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China.
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Shea JM
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Shrestha AB
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Shukla A
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, India.
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Stumm D
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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van der Kooij M
MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates-GSI, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Voss K
Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
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Xin W
College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, China.
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Weihs B
Geography Department, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA.
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Wolfe D
Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) Steward, Alaska Region, Anchorage, AK, USA.
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Lizong W
School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
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Xiaojun Y
College of Geographical Science and Environment, Northwest Normal University, China.
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Yoder MR
Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
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Young N
Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia.
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- Science (New York, N.Y.). - 2016
English
The Gorkha earthquake (magnitude 7.8) on 25 April 2015 and later aftershocks struck South Asia, killing ~9000 people and damaging a large region. Supported by a large campaign of responsive satellite data acquisitions over the earthquake disaster zone, our team undertook a satellite image survey of the earthquakes' induced geohazards in Nepal and China and an assessment of the geomorphic, tectonic, and lithologic controls on quake-induced landslides. Timely analysis and communication aided response and recovery and informed decision-makers. We mapped 4312 coseismic and postseismic landslides. We also surveyed 491 glacier lakes for earthquake damage but found only nine landslide-impacted lakes and no visible satellite evidence of outbursts. Landslide densities correlate with slope, peak ground acceleration, surface downdrop, and specific metamorphic lithologies and large plutonic intrusions.
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