{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["14(1)"],"submitter":["Brice A"],"pubmed_abstract":["Whether the Main Himalayan Thrust can host a single surface-rupturing event in the Himalaya with a rupture length of > 700 km remains controversial. Previous paleoseismological studies in the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya (DSH) suggested medieval surface-rupturing earthquakes, correlating them with the eleventh-thirteenth century events from Nepal and Bhutan and extending the coseismic rupture length > 700 km. Conversely, there is no rupture evidence of the 1714 Bhutan and 1934 Bihar-Nepal earthquakes in the DSH, resulting in a discrepancy in the rupture extent of the great earthquakes. Consequently, we conducted a paleoseismological investigation across a ~ 10 m-high fault scarp on the Himalayan Frontal Thrust at Chenga village, DSH, revealing a surface-faulting event during 1313-395 BCE. We"],"journal":["Scientific reports"],"pagination":["14537"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11196676"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Paleoseismological evidence for segmentation of the Main Himalayan Thrust in the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya."],"pmcid":["PMC11196676"],"pubmed_authors":["Priyanka RS","Mishra RL","Singh I","Jayangondaperumal R","Brice A","Dash SP","Pandey A","Kumar P","Sati M"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Paleoseismological evidence for segmentation of the Main Himalayan Thrust in the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya.","description":"Whether the Main Himalayan Thrust can host a single surface-rupturing event in the Himalaya with a rupture length of > 700 km remains controversial. Previous paleoseismological studies in the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya (DSH) suggested medieval surface-rupturing earthquakes, correlating them with the eleventh-thirteenth century events from Nepal and Bhutan and extending the coseismic rupture length > 700 km. Conversely, there is no rupture evidence of the 1714 Bhutan and 1934 Bihar-Nepal earthquakes in the DSH, resulting in a discrepancy in the rupture extent of the great earthquakes. Consequently, we conducted a paleoseismological investigation across a ~ 10 m-high fault scarp on the Himalayan Frontal Thrust at Chenga village, DSH, revealing a surface-faulting event during 1313-395 BCE. We","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Jun","modification":"2025-04-04T12:48:01.794Z","creation":"2025-04-04T12:48:01.794Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11196676","cross_references":{"pubmed":["38914592"],"doi":["10.1038/s41598-024-63539-1"]}}