Earthquake 5.6 - 21 km E of Dipayal, Nepal

5.6 - 21 km E of Dipayal, Nepal 

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Dipayal, Sudurpashchim Pradesh, Nepal

21.8 km (13.5 mi) WPopulation: 23416

Dadeldhurā, Sudurpashchim Pradesh, Nepal

56.3 km (35 mi) WPopulation: 19014

Dailekh, Karnali Pradesh, Nepal

73.4 km (45.6 mi) SEPopulation: 20908

Dārchulā, Sudurpashchim Pradesh, Nepal

83.7 km (52 mi) NWPopulation: 18317

Ṭikāpur, Sudurpashchim Pradesh, Nepal

85.6 km (53.2 mi) SPopulation: 44758

Distance and bearing from focal point to local spot.

Structural Outline

Seismotectonics of the Himalaya and Area

Seismicity in the Himalaya overwhelmingly results from the mainland crash of the India and Eurasia plates, which are joining at a general pace of 40-50 mm/yr. Toward the north underthrusting of India underneath Eurasia creates various quakes and subsequently makes this region one of the most seismically perilous areas on The planet. The surface articulation of the plate limit is set apart by the lower regions of the north-south moving Sulaiman Reach in the west, the Indo-Burmese Bend in the east and the east-west moving Himalaya Front in the north of India.

The India-Eurasia plate limit is a diffuse limit, which in the district close to the north of India, exists in the constraints of the Indus-Tsangpo (likewise called the Yarlung-Zangbo) Stitch toward the north and the Super Front facing Push toward the south. The Indus-Tsangpo Stitch Zone is found around 200 km north of the Himalaya Front and is characterized by an uncovered ophiolite chain along its southern edge. The thin (<200km) Himalaya Front incorporates various east-west moving, equal designs. This district has the most noteworthy paces of seismicity and biggest quakes in the Himalaya locale, caused basically by development on push flaws. Instances of critical quakes, in this thickly populated locale, brought about by switch slip development incorporate the 1934 M8.1 Bihar, the 1905 M7.5 Kangra and the 2005 M7.6 Kashmir seismic tremors. The last two brought about the most noteworthy losses of life for Himalaya seismic tremors seen to date, together killing more than 100,000 individuals and leaving millions destitute. The biggest instrumentally recorded Himalaya quake happened on fifteenth August 1950 in Assam, eastern India. This M8.6 right-parallel, strike-slip, seismic tremor was generally felt over a wide area of focal Asia, making broad harm towns in the epicentral district.

The Tibetan Level is arranged north of the Himalaya, extending roughly 1000km north-south and 2500km east-west, and is topographically and structurally complex with a few stitches which are many kilometer-long and by and large pattern east-west. The Tibetan Level is cut by various huge (>1000km) east-west moving, left-sidelong, strike-slip deficiencies, including the long Kunlun, Haiyuan, and the Altyn Tagh. Right-sidelong, strike-slip shortcomings (equivalent in size to the left-horizontal issues), in this locale incorporate the Karakorum, Red Waterway, and Sagaing. Auxiliary north-south moving typical blames likewise cut the Tibetan Level. Push issues are found towards the north and south of the Tibetan Level. Altogether, these deficiencies oblige crustal shortening related with the continuous crash of the India and Eurasia plates, with push shortcomings obliging north south pressure, and typical and strike-slip obliging east-west expansion.

Along the western edge of the Tibetan Level, nearby south-eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan, the India plate makes an interpretation of diagonally comparative with the Eurasia plate, bringing about a mind boggling fold-and-push belt known as the Sulaiman Reach. Blaming in this locale incorporates strike-slip, switch slip and sideways slip movement and frequently brings about shallow, damaging tremors. The dynamic, left-sidelong, strike-slip Chaman shortcoming is the quickest moving shortcoming in the area. In 1505, a section of the Chaman issue close to Kabul, Afghanistan, burst causing far and wide obliteration. In a similar locale the later 30 May 1935, M7.6 Quetta seismic tremor, which happened in the Sulaiman Reach in Pakistan, killed somewhere in the range of 30,000 and 60,000 people.On the north-western side of the Tibetan Level, underneath the Pamir-Hindu Kush Piles of northern Afghanistan, quakes happen at profundities as extraordinary as 200 km because of remainder lithospheric subduction. The bended circular segment of profound quakes found in the Hindu Kush Pamir district shows the presence of a lithospheric body at profundity, remembered to be leftovers of a subducting chunk. Get segments through the Hindu Kush locale recommend a close to vertical northerly-plunging subducting piece, while get segments through the close by Pamir district toward the east show a much shallower plunging, southerly subducting section. A few models propose the presence of two subduction zones; with the Indian plate being subducted underneath the Hindu Kush locale and the Eurasian plate being subducted underneath the Pamir district. Notwithstanding, different models recommend that only one of the two plates is being subducted and that the section has become twisted and upset in places.Shallow crustal quakes likewise happen around here close to the Primary Pamir Push and other dynamic Quaternary deficiencies. The Principal Pamir Push, north of the Pamir Mountains, is a functioning shortening structure. The northern piece of the Fundamental Pamir Push produces many shallow quakes, though its western and eastern boundaries show a blend of pushed and strike-slip systems. On the 18 February 1911, the M7.4 Sarez tremor burst in the Focal Pamir Mountains, killing various individuals and setting off a landside, which hindered the Murghab Waterway.

Further north, the Tian Shan is a seismically dynamic intra-mainland mountain belt, which broadens 2500 km in an ENE-WNW direction north of the Tarim Bowl. This belt is characterized by various east-west moving push flaws, making a compressional bowl and reach scene. It is by and large felt that local burdens related with the impact of the India and Eurasia plates are answerable for blaming in the district. The area has had three significant quakes (>M7.6) toward the beginning of the twentieth 100 years, including the 1902 Atushi tremor, which killed an expected 5,000 individuals. The reach is sliced through in the west by the 700-km-long, northwest-southeast striking, Talas-Ferghana dynamic right-parallel, strike-slip shortcoming situation. However the framework has delivered no serious quakes over the most recent 250 years, paleo-seismic examinations demonstrate that it can possibly create M7.0+ tremors and it is remembered to address a huge hazard.The northern part of the Tibetan Level itself is generally overwhelmed by the movement on three enormous left-parallel, strike-slip shortcoming frameworks; the Altyn Tagh, Kunlun and Haiyuan. The Altyn Tagh shortcoming is the longest of these strike slip flaws and obliging a huge part of plate convergence is thought. Nonetheless, this framework has not experienced critical authentic quakes, however paleoseismic concentrates on show proof of ancient M7.0-8.0 occasions. Push flaws interface with the Altyn Tagh at its eastern and western ends. The Kunlun Shortcoming, south of the Altyn Tagh, is seismically dynamic, delivering enormous quakes, for example, the eighth November 1997, M7.6 Manyi tremor and the fourteenth November 2001, M7.8 Kokoxili tremor. The Haiyuan Shortcoming, in the far north-east, produced the 16 December 1920, M7.8 quake that killed around 200,000 individuals and the 22 May 1927 M7.6 tremor that killed 40,912.

The Longmen Shan push belt, along the eastern edge of the Tibetan Level, is a significant primary component and structures a momentary zone between the impressively twisted Songpan-Garze Overlay Belt and the moderately undeformed Sichuan Bowl. On 12 May 2008, the push belt delivered the opposite slip, M7.9 Wenchuan tremor, killing north of 87,000 individuals and causing billions of US dollars in penalties and avalanches which dammed a few waterways and lakes.Southeast of the Tibetan Level are the right-parallel, strike-slip Red Stream and the left-sidelong, strike-slip Xiangshuihe-Xiaojiang shortcoming frameworks. The Red Waterway Shortcoming experienced enormous scope, left-sidelong pliable shear during the Tertiary time frame prior to changing to its current day right-parallel slip pace of around 5 mm/yr. This shortcoming has created a few tremors >M6.0 including the 4 January 1970, M7.5 quake in Tonghai which killed north of 10,000 individuals. Starting from the beginning of the twentieth hundred years, the Xiangshuihe-Xiaojiang Shortcoming framework has created a few M7.0+ tremors including the M7.5 Luhuo quake which burst on the 22 April 1973. An investigations recommend that because of the great slip rate on this issue, future enormous seismic tremors are profoundly conceivable along the 65km stretch among Daofu and Qianning and the 135km stretch that goes through Kangding.