Lower edge of locked Main Himalayan Thrust unzipped by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake
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Faults are unlocked by earthquakes. Analysis of seismic data from the 2015 Nepal earthquake shows that only part of the Main Himalayan Thrust fault was unzipped by the quake, leaving much of the fault locked and ready to slip in a future event.
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Nature Geoscience
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1752-0894
1752-0908
1752-0908
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8
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Springer Nature
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