Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Persistent CO2 emissions and hydrothermal unrest following the 2015 earthquake in Nepal

  • Frédéric Girault,
  • Lok Bijaya Adhikari,
  • Christian France-Lanord,
  • Pierre Agrinier,
  • Bharat P. Koirala,
  • Mukunda Bhattarai,
  • Sudhan S. Mahat,
  • Chiara Groppo,
  • Franco Rolfo,
  • Laurent Bollinger,
  • Frédéric Perrier

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05138-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Earthquakes rarely affect hydrothermal systems in non-magmatic context. Here the authors report outbursts of CO2 and hydrothermal disturbances triggered by the 2015 Nepal earthquake, revealing high sensitivity of Himalayan hydrothermal systems to co-, post- and possibly pre- seismic deformation.