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El Pilar Fault
Strike-Slip Fault (Right-Lateral) · Venezuela
The El Pilar Fault is a strike-slip fault, where the two blocks slide horizontally past each other, right-lateral (the opposite block moves to the right). Its mapped traces are about 420 km long in Venezuela. It marks the boundary between the South American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. Its slip rate is estimated between 5 and 9 mm per year depending on the section. Since 1900, 3 major earthquakes have occurred within 30 km of its trace.
- Type
- Strike-Slip Fault
- Sense of Slip
- Right-Lateral
- Mapped Length
- ≈ 420 km
- Slip Rate
- 5 – 9 mm per year
- Countries
- Venezuela
- Plates
- South American Plate, Caribbean Plate
Major Earthquakes Within 30 km
Deadly or magnitude 7+ earthquakes recorded by NOAA, most recent first.
- 20182018 Venezuela Earthquake · M 7.35 deaths
- 19971997 Cariaco Earthquake · M 781 deaths
- 19291929 Cumaná Earthquake · M 6.950 deaths
Sources: GEM Global Active Faults (Styron et Pagani, 2020), CC BY-SA 4.0, catalogue SARA · NOAA NCEI · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Wikidata