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Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault
Strike-Slip Fault (Left-Lateral) · Haiti
The Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault is a strike-slip fault, where the two blocks slide horizontally past each other, left-lateral (the opposite block moves to the left). Its mapped traces are about 450 km long in Haiti. It lies within the Caribbean Plate, which deforms under the push of neighbouring plates. Its slip rate is estimated between 1 and 2 mm per year depending on the section. Since 1900, 2 major earthquakes have occurred within 30 km of its trace.
- Type
- Strike-Slip Fault
- Sense of Slip
- Left-Lateral
- Mapped Length
- ≈ 450 km
- Slip Rate
- 1 – 2 mm per year
- Countries
- Haiti
- Plates
- Caribbean Plate
Major Earthquakes Within 30 km
Deadly or magnitude 7+ earthquakes recorded by NOAA, most recent first.
- 20212021 Haiti Earthquake · M 7.22,248 deaths
- 20102010 Haiti Earthquake · M 7316,000 deaths
Sources: GEM Global Active Faults (Styron et Pagani, 2020), CC BY-SA 4.0, catalogue GEM_Central_Am_Carib · NOAA NCEI · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Wikidata