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Septentrional Fault
Strike-Slip Fault (Left-Lateral) · Dominican Republic
The Septentrional 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 640 km long in the Dominican Republic. It lies within the Caribbean Plate, which deforms under the push of neighbouring plates. Since 1900, 2 major earthquakes have occurred within 30 km of its trace.
- Type
- Strike-Slip Fault
- Sense of Slip
- Left-Lateral
- Mapped Length
- ≈ 640 km
- Countries
- Dominican Republic
- Plates
- Caribbean Plate
Major Earthquakes Within 30 km
Deadly or magnitude 7+ earthquakes recorded by NOAA, most recent first.
- 1953Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic · M 7.2
- 19461946 Dominican Republic Earthquake · M 7.91,790 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