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Median Tectonic Line
Strike-Slip Fault (Right-Lateral) · Japan
The Median Tectonic Line 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 510 km long in Japan. It lies within the Amur Plate, which deforms under the push of neighbouring plates. Its slip rate is estimated between 0.9 and 5 mm per year depending on the section.
- Type
- Strike-Slip Fault
- Sense of Slip
- Right-Lateral
- Mapped Length
- ≈ 510 km
- Slip Rate
- 0.9 – 5 mm per year
- Countries
- Japan
- Plates
- Amur Plate
Sources: GEM Global Active Faults (Styron et Pagani, 2020), CC BY-SA 4.0, catalogue GEM Faulted Earth · NOAA NCEI · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Wikidata