{"id":2466,"date":"2015-05-13T12:17:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T20:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2015-05-13T12:17:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T20:17:17","slug":"large-aftershock-in-nepal-3rd-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2466","title":{"rendered":"Large Aftershock in Nepal: 3rd Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

After some debate online, I decided to put this quick map together. Clicking on the epicenters in google earth or on the USGS earthquakes page, one can easily determine that there were aftershocks from the 2015.04.25 Mw 7.8 earthquake in the region of where the Mw 7.3 and associated May aftershocks were located. The May aftershocks extended the region of slip a little further to the east, though much of the fault had already slipped in this region in April.
\nHere is the map that I put together. I have placed the USGS epicenters with two color schemes. The size of the yellow dots represents earthquake magnitude. The degree of redness designates the time (earlier-April = pink & later-May = red). Note how there are some pink colored epicenters in the region of the M 7.3 earthquake. These pink colored earthquakes all occurred in April. The red ones are from May. These epicenters may not be plotted with the greatest certainty, though any uncertainty is possibly shared between them. So, there relative positions are possibly good.
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\nThere is a team of Geophysicists at the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the Earth Observation Research Center at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University who are analyzing the surface deformation from the Mw 7.8 mainshock (Lindsey et al., 2015). They think that the M 7.3 aftershock and associated aftershocks are occurring in a region of the fault that was stressed during the mainshock. This makes sense from a coulomb stress perspective. The small aftershocks that happened in this region east of Katmandu were small in magnitude and probably did not release much stress. See their post here<\/a>.
\nFurther work with the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS-2*ALOS), using satellite interferometry<\/a>, have found that central Kathmandu has risen by about 1 meter. Here is a link<\/a> to their page.
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