Caltech-Led Team Looks In Detail At the Gorkha Earthquake (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Caltech-Led Team Looks In Detail At the Gorkha Earthquake

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John Galetzka, then of Caltech, and Sudhir Rajaure, of the Department of Mines and Geology in Kathmandu, install a high-rate GPS station in the Himalaya. This was one of the stations that an international team of researchers led by Caltech used to study the April 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal and the pattern of shaking it caused in Kathmandu.

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John Galetzka

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