...Marie-Luce Chevalier; Philippe Hervé Leloup; Anne Replumaz; Jiawei Pan; Marianne Métois; Haibing Li Abstract The left-lateral strike-slip Xianshuihe fault system, located in eastern Tibet, is one of the most tectonically active intracontinental fault systems in China, if not in the world, along...

...CLARENCE R. ALLEN; LUO ZHUOLI; QIAN HONG; WEN XUEZE; ZHOU HUAWEI; HUANG WEISHI Abstract The Xianshuihe fault of western Sichuan Province, China, is one of the world's most active faults, having produced 4 earthquakes during this century of magnitude ≥7 along a 350-km length of the fault. At least 8...

...Shifeng Wang; Chun Fan; Gang Wang; Erchie Wang Abstract The Xianshuihe fault system is a highly active, left-lateral slip fault that has played an important role in accommodating late Cenozoic crustal deformation of the Eastern Tibetan Plateau. The left-lateral displacement on the western portion...

...Hongliu Ran Abstract In order to estimate distributions of recurrence intervals and segment interactions across the four fault segments along the northwestern portion of the Xianshuihe fault ( NPXF ) in southwestern China, I generate a large number of synthetic earthquake catalogs by sampling...

...Huilan Zhou; Hsui-Lin Liu; Hiroo Kanamori abstract The Xianshuihe fault is one of the most active faults in southwestern China. Recently, three large earthquakes occurred along it in 1967 ( M s = 6.1), 1973 ( M s = 7.5), and 1981 ( M s = 6.8). The 1981 event occurred near the central portion...

...Erchie Wang; B. Clark Burchfiel Abstract From at least 2–4 Ma to present, crust in the southeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau west of the convex-east Xianshuihe-Xiaojiang fault system has deformed internally and rotated clockwise around the eastern Himalayan syntaxis. The northwest-striking Ganzi...

...Aiming Lin; Dong Jia; Gang Rao; Bing Yan; Xiaojun Wu; Zhikun Ren Abstract The magnitude ( M w ) 6.9 ( M s 7.1) Yushu earthquake of 14 April 2010 ruptured the Yushu fault of the preexisting strike-slip Ganzi–Yushu fault zone, which is an extension of the Xianshuihe fault. The earthquake resulted...

... on the northwestern continuation of the Ganzi–Xianshuihe fault zone and reactivated two segments of the fault. Ruptures associated with Yushu earthquake span a zone ≈70 km long, extending from south of Jielong in the west to south of Gyêgu (Yushu) in the east. Detailed mapping of the surface rupture zone shows...

... plateau growth and development of other regional fault systems. Long-term average slip rate on the Red River fault is a minimum of ∼5 mm/yr. However, regional active tectonics are characterized by rotation of the upper crust around the eastern Himalayan syntaxis, bounded to the east by the Xianshuihe...