Study on Coulomb Stress Triggering of the April 2015 M7.8 Nepal Earthquake Sequence

Figure 1

The epicentral region of the 2015 Nepal M7.8 earthquake sequence. At the location of this earthquake, the India plate is converging with Eurasia at a rate of 45 mm/yr towards the north-northeast, driving the uplift of the Himalayan mountain range (modified from USGS [6]).