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Haiyuan Fault
Strike-Slip Fault (Left-Lateral) · People's Republic of China
The Haiyuan 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 850 km long in People's Republic of China. It lies within the Eurasian Plate, which deforms under the push of neighbouring plates. Since 1900, 1 major earthquake has occurred within 30 km of its trace.
- Type
- Strike-Slip Fault
- Sense of Slip
- Left-Lateral
- Mapped Length
- ≈ 850 km
- Countries
- People's Republic of China
- Plates
- Eurasian Plate
Major Earthquakes Within 30 km
Deadly or magnitude 7+ earthquakes recorded by NOAA, most recent first.
- 19201920 Haiyuan Earthquake · M 8.3235,502 deaths
Sources: GEM Global Active Faults (Styron et Pagani, 2020), CC BY-SA 4.0, catalogue HimaTibetMap · NOAA NCEI · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Wikidata