Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

Assessment of Site Effects: Kathmandu Valley

February 7, 2018

Virtual Earthquake Reconnaissance Team (VERT) Summary by Ashly Cabas.

Compilation of site effects observations in Kathmandu valley and adjacent regions (Pre-Gorkha Earthquake)  

A study of local amplification effect of soil layers on ground motion in the Kathmandu Valley using microtremor analysis_Paudyal et al. (2012)

Site response of the Ganges basin inferred from re-evaluated macroseismic observations from 1897 Shillong, 1905 Kangra and 1934 Nepal Eqs_Hough and Bilham (2008)

Soft sediments and damage pattern-a few case studies_Verma et al. (2014)

Sensitivity Analysis of Soil Site Response Modeling in Seismic Microzonation for Lalitpur, Nepal_destegul

 

Curated topics from the April 25, 2015, Nepal Earthquake to help inform reconnaissance activities, identify impacted regions, and help document the timeline of earthquake response/recovery. 

Information on geotechnical impacts—landslides and liquefaction—from the April 25, 2015, Nepal earthquake.