Research Article

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

Table 1

The basic parameters of the aftershocks and coulomb stress calculation results.

AftershockCoordinates (°)Depth (km)Fault plane (°)Coulomb stress changes based on Hayes’s model (bar)Coulomb stress changes based on Yue’s model (bar)

M6.628.22410.0271,21,64−3.109−6.183
84.822119,71,100−4.278−4.407
M6.727.77122.9285,12,943.2595.777
86.017100,78,893.7716.367
M7.327.809 15.5303,9,1106.7352.800
86.066102,82,871.9284.688
M6.327.62515.5274,14,890.6413.440
86.16295,76,900.6204.295