AGU Session T25: The Himalayan Earthquake Cycle

Dear Colleagues,

We'd like to encourage you to submit a contributed abstract for session T25 :

"The Himalayan Earthquake Cycle"

to be held at the 2007 Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco. Our goal is to bring together a diverse group of geologists and geophysicists working with geodetic, geologic, paleoseismologic, seismologic, and other data relevant to understanding the past, present, and future seismic hazards in the Himalaya. We look forward to your contribution on this important and timely topic.

Abstract submissions are due Sept. 6, 2007. More information can be found at http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/.

Best Regards,
Doug Yule and Andrew Meigs

T25 : The Himalayan Earthquake Cycle

Conveners: Doug Yule and Andrew Meigs

Session description:

The Mw 7.6 Kashmir earthquake of 2005 caused the greatest loss of life of any earthquake in the Indian subcontinent, even though it was far from the largest earthquake there. It was a source of alarm to the governments of Pakistan, India, and Nepal because all three countries share the seismically-active and increasingly-urban-populated Himalaya. The favored model for generating destructive earthquakes in this region contends that elastic strain accumulates along a mid-crustal ramp beneath the High Himalaya, and is released during large and great earthquakes southward toward the Himalayan thrust front. This session aims to bring together results of recent neotectonic and geophysical studies that illuminate how strain and convergence are partitioned across this collision zone. We especially welcome studies that constrain the earthquake recurrence and slip rate of active structures and characterize the seismic hazard of faults threatening major population centers.