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Fig. 1

From: Analysis of strong ground motions and site effects at Kantipath, Kathmandu, from 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake and its aftershocks

Fig. 1

Index map. The epicenters of the events listed in Table 1 are represented by circles numbered in the order of occurrence (corresponding to event IDs in Table 1) and scaled by magnitude. Triangles indicate the sites at which ground motions are recorded. KKN4 and NAST are GPS sites located on the rock and basin, respectively. Ground-motion records from these sites are available only for the mainshock event. The arrow points to the center of the Kathmandu basin. KATNP is a strong-motion site, and ground-motion records from this site are available for all the events shown in this figure. The Main Frontal Thrust (MFT) is shown as a red line (Bird 2003). The rectangle surrounding the epicenters is the surface projection of a fault plane estimated by the United States Geological Survey (USGS 2015). The color scale shows elevations plotted using Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data retrieved from the portal Open Topography (2015)

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