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Main Frontal Thrust (Himalaya)
Reverse Fault · Nepal, India, Bhutan
The Main Frontal Thrust (Himalaya) is a reverse fault, where one block rides over the other under compression. Its mapped traces are about 1,640 km long in Nepal, India and Bhutan. It marks the boundary between the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. Its slip rate is estimated at 15 mm per year. Since 1900, 2 major earthquakes have occurred within 30 km of its trace.
- Type
- Reverse Fault
- Mapped Length
- ≈ 1,640 km
- Slip Rate
- 15 mm per year
- Countries
- Nepal, India, Bhutan
- Plates
- Indian Plate, Eurasian Plate
Major Earthquakes Within 30 km
Deadly or magnitude 7+ earthquakes recorded by NOAA, most recent first.
- 19881988 Nepal Earthquake · M 6.6998 deaths
- 19341934 Bihar Earthquake · M 810,600 deaths
Sources: GEM Global Active Faults (Styron et Pagani, 2020), CC BY-SA 4.0, catalogue HimaTibetMap · NOAA NCEI · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Wikidata