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Sagaing Fault
Strike-Slip Fault (Right-Lateral) · Myanmar
The Sagaing 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 1,440 km long in Myanmar. It marks the boundary between the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. Since 1900, 8 major earthquakes have occurred within 30 km of its trace.
- Type
- Strike-Slip Fault
- Sense of Slip
- Right-Lateral
- Mapped Length
- ≈ 1,440 km
- Countries
- Myanmar
- Plates
- Indian Plate, Eurasian Plate
Major Earthquakes Within 30 km
Deadly or magnitude 7+ earthquakes recorded by NOAA, most recent first.
- 20252025 Myanmar Earthquake · M 7.73,815 deaths
- 20122012 Shwebo Earthquake · M 6.838 deaths
- 1991Thabeikkyin, Mandalay, Myanmar · M 7
- 19561956 Sagaing Earthquake · M 6.838 deaths
- 19461946 Sagaing Earthquakes · M 7.5
- 19461946 Sagaing Earthquakes · M 7.8
- 19311931 Myitkyina Earthquake · M 7.6
- 19301930 Pyu Earthquake · M 7.336 deaths
Sources: GEM Global Active Faults (Styron et Pagani, 2020), CC BY-SA 4.0, catalogue EOS_SE_Asia · NOAA NCEI · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Wikidata