Himalayas—Tectonics, Earthquakes, and the 2015 Nepal Earthquake

ERRATA: at 15 seconds narrator says "1,500 km". It should be "15,000 km". For a stand-alone edited copy: www.iris.edu/earthquake/animations Written & directed by Robert Butler, University of Portland, OR Animation & graphics by Jenda Johnson, Earth Sciences Animated Narrated by Wendy Bohon, IRIS Informal Education Specialist Science advising & editing: Beth Pratt-Sitaula (UNAVCO), Alka Tripathy-Lang (U.C. Berkeley Geochronology Lab), and Roger Bilham (CIRES—Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) Plate Tectonic & Paleogeographic Evolution of India: Scotese, C.R., and Scotese, J.D., 2006, PALEOMAP Project, Evanston, IL (http://scotese.com/) Animated GPS graph: David Mencin (UNAVCO) and Roger Bilham (CIRES). GPS data from NAST station, collaboration between Caltech Tectonics Observatory, Nepal National Seismologic Network, Tribhuvan University, and the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology. Kathmandu security video footage from “Nepal Earthquake 2015,” YouTube channel. Landslide data: B.D. Collins & R.W. Jibson, USGS Open-File Report 2015-1142. Photographs from Ajay Sitaula, Hilmi Hacaloğlu, US Marine Corps, and the Associated Press (licenced by IRIS Teachable Moments). Maps from GeoMapApp & GoogleEarth Funded by the National Science Foundation