Date of Birth: 15 June 1945
Home Address: Gha 1/327, Gyaneshwor, Kathmandu
Qualifications: M.Sc. Exploration Geophysics (1969), St. Petersburg Mining
Institute, Russia
Training:
Integrated Method of Mineral Exploration (14 months), 1975,
St. Petersburg Mining Institute, Russia
Seismology, (3 months), 1980, Paris University, France
Experimental Seismology (3 months), 1982, Institute of Physics of Earth, Paris
Geological Hazards (1 month) 1985, USGS, Denver, Colorado, USA
Seismology (1 month each) in 1986 & 1988 LDG, France
Language: English, Russian, Hindi, French (spoken only).
Member of Professional Societies:
(a) Life Member of the Nepal Geological Society NGS)
(b) Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
(c) National Society for Earthquake Technology Nepal (NSET-Nepal)
Service Records:
Exploration Geologist (From 1969 to 1975), Dept. of Mines & Geology.
Senior Divisional Geologists (Senior Seismologist), (From 1975 to present), Department of Mines and Geology.
Professional Experience:
From 1969 to 1976: worked as Exploration Geologist and conducted geophysical exploration for metallic mineral deposits and hydrocarbon exploration.
From 1978 to present: working as Chief, National Seismological Laboratory of Department of Mines and Geology.
Major contribution in the establishment of National Seismological Networks in Nepal.
Major contribution in the Publication of Microseismicity Map of Nepal and Adjacent Regions.
From 1997 to present: Chairman of National Committee for International Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP).
Seminars and Workshops Attended:
Comparison of Active Faults of the world, IGCP Project, 206, China, 1984
IASPEI Meeting, 1984., NGRI, Hyderabad, India
Himalaya — Karakoram -Tibet International Workshop! Seminar in 1994., Kathmandu, Nepal
First Nepal Geological Congress, 1995. NGS, Kathinandu, Nepal
Second Nepal Geological Congress, 1997., NGS, Katbmandu, Nepal
Global Seismolgical Hazard Assessment Projet,1994. , China
Asian Seismological Commission First Meeting, IASPEI, Regional Assembly in Asia, 1996., Tangshan, China.
INDO-US Workshop on Paleoseismicity, 1997, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehra-Dun, India,
Asian Seismological Commission Second Meeting, 1998, NGRI, Hyderabad, India.
Publications:
Velocity Determination of Kathmandu Complex— M. R. Pandey, Jour.of Nepal Geol. Soc., Vol 1 No. 1, pp 29-35, 1981.
Features of the P-waves propogated in the crust of the Himalayas — J. C. Lepine, A. Him, M. R. Pandey, J.M. Tater, Annales Geophysicae, 2, 2, pp 119— 122,1984.
Crustal structure and variability of the Himalayan border of Tibet —A. Him et. aL, Nature Vol. 307 No 5946, pp 23— 25, 5 Jan. 1984 Seismic model of central and eastern lesser Himalaya of Nepal - M. R. Pandey, Jour.of Nepal GeoI. Soc., ½1 3 No. I & 2, pp1-11, 1985.
Historical earthquakes of Nepal - Chitrakar G.R. and Pandey MR. Bull. Geol. Soc. Nepal, 4, pp 7-8, 1986.
The distribution of intensity of the Bihar-Nepal earthquake 15 January 1934 and bounds of the extent of the rupture zone - M. R. Pandey and Peter Molnar, Jour. Nepal Geol. Soc., Vol 5 No. 1, pp 22441988.
The aftershock sequence of the Udayapur earthquake of August 20 - Pandey, MR. and M. Nicolas, 1988, Jour.of Nepal Geol. Soc. Nepal, Vol PP , 1989.
Rupture zones of great earthquakes of the Himalayan region - Peter Molnar and M. R. Pandey, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet. Sci.), Vol 98, No, pp 61-70, lApril 1989.
P-wave residuals at stations in Nepal: Evidence for a high velocity region beneath Karakorum — M. R. Pandey, Steven W. Roecker, and Peter Molnar, Geop. Res. Let., Vol. 18, No. 10, pp 1909— 1912, Oct. 1991.
Ground classification (microzoning) of Katbmandu valley on the basis of microtremor survey, M. R. Pandey et al., Bull. Dept. Geology, Ttibhuvan Univ., Kathmandu, Nepal, V. 2 No 1 (Proc. Symp. “Geodynamics of the Nepal Himalaya”, pp 181-189, 1992.
Interseismic Strain Accumulation on the Himalayan Crustal Ramp (Nepal) - Pandey, M.R., R.R Tandukar, J.P. Avouac, J. Lavé and J.P. Massot, Geophys. Res. Let., 22, pp 75 1-754, 1995.
Indo-Asian Convergence rates in the Nepal Himalaya - Bilham, R., K. Larson, 1. Freymuller and Project IDYLHIM members, Nature, 386, pp 61-66, 1997.
Crustal structure and variability of the Himalayan border of Tibet - Him, A., Lepine J. C., Jobert G., Sapin M., Wittlinger G., Xu Z. X., Gao E. Y.,Wang. X. J., Teng J. W.,Xiong S. B., Pandey M. R., Tater J. M., Nature, v 307, pp 23-25, 1984a.
Lesser Himalaya to Qang Tang: a 500 km teleseismic deployment to test geodynamic models — Hirn, A, Nerssian A., Sapin M., Lepine J. C., Sachpazi M., Ferrazzii V, Jiang M., Lu Q. T., Shi D. N., Ma K., Pandey M. R., Diaz J., and Gallait J., Jout of Nepal Geol. Soc., Vol. 9, Proceedings of 9th Himalayan-Karakomm-Tibet Workshop, Katbmandu, pp 39-52, 1995.
Seismic anisotropy as a indicator of mantle flow beneath the Himalayas and Tibet: Him A., Jiang M., Sapin M., Diaz 5., Nercessian A., Lu Q. T., Lepine J. C., Shi D. N., Sachpazi M., Pandey M. R., Ma K., and Gallart J., Nature ,v. 375, pp. 571-574, 199...
Characteristics of Seismicity of Nepal and their Seismo-tectonic Implications: M. R. Pandey, R. P. Tandukar, 5. P. Avouac, 5. Vergne, and Th. Heritier (in press).
