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Map data of landslides triggered by the 25 April 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake

November 12, 2017

The 25 April 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha earthquake and its aftershocks triggered about 25,000 landslides over an area of more than 30,000 km2 in the Greater and Lesser Himalaya of Nepal and China. In order to understand the relation among landslide location, earthquake shaking, topography, tectonic geologic and climatic setting, earthquake-triggered landslides were mapped using high-resolution (

Publication Year 2017
Title Map data of landslides triggered by the 25 April 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake
DOI 10.5066/F7DZ06F9
Authors Dimitrios Zekkos, Marin K. Clark, Kevin Roback, Sean F. Gallen, A. Joshua West, Gen Li, Deepak Chamlagain, Jonathan W Godt
Product Type Data Release
Record Source USGS Asset Identifier Service (AIS)
USGS Organization Landslide Hazards Programs
Rights This work is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal
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