Fault Name |
Length [km] |
Location |
Sense of Movement |
Time of movement |
Associated Earthquakes |
Sources
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Aedipsos-Kandili Fault |
60 |
North Euboean Gulf, Greece |
Normal |
Active |
|
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Alaska-Aleutian Megathrust |
4000 |
Kamchatka, Russia to Gulf of Alaska |
Subduction zone |
Active |
1964 Prince William Sound (M9.2), 1965 Rat Islands (M8.7), 1957 Andreanof Islands (M8.6) |
[1]
|
Alpine Fault |
600
|
South Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike-slip (Transform) |
Active |
Last earthquake ca. 1717 (~M8) |
[2]
|
Altyn Tagh Fault |
2000 |
Tibetan Plateau/Tarim Basin |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
|
[3]
|
Amfilochia Fault |
60 |
Western Greece |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
|
|
Amorgos Fault |
>100 |
Greece, South Aegean Sea |
Normal |
Active |
1956 Amorgos (M7.4)[4] |
|
Arkitsa – Agios Konstantinos Fault zone |
25 |
Central Greece |
Normal |
|
|
|
Aspy Fault |
40 |
Nova Scotia, Canada |
Strike-slip |
|
|
|
Atacama Fault |
800 |
Atacama desert, Chile |
Strike-slip |
Active |
|
|
Atalanti Fault |
50 |
Central Greece |
Normal Fault |
Active |
1894 Atalanti (M6.4, M6.9) |
|
Atotsugawa Fault |
|
Japan |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1858 Hietsu earthquake (M~7) |
|
Awatere Fault |
200 |
South Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1848 Marlborough (M7.5) |
|
Azores–Gibraltar Transform Fault |
2250 |
Azores to Strait of Gibraltar |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1755 Lisbon earthquake (est. M7.7–9.0), 1969 Cape St. Vincent (M7.9), 1941 Gloria Fault (M8.0) |
|
Baikal Rift Zone |
|
Lake Baikal |
Rift zone |
Active |
|
|
Balcones Fault |
|
Texas, United States |
Normal |
Inactive |
the subsidence of the Texas Coastal Plain during the Neogene period |
|
Ballenas Fault |
|
Gulf of California, United States |
Transform |
Active |
|
|
Baribis Fault |
100 |
Java, Indonesia |
Thrust |
Active |
1834 Java earthquake (M 7.0) |
|
Brothers Fault Zone |
|
Oregon, United States |
|
|
|
|
Bulnay Fault |
370 |
Mongolia |
Sinistral |
Active |
1905 Bolnai (M8.3) |
|
Calaveras Fault |
120 |
San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States |
Dextral |
Active |
1911 Morgan Hill (M6.5), 1984 Morgan Hill (M6.2) |
|
Cascadia megathrust |
1000 |
West coast of United States – Oregon & Washington Vancouver Island, Canada |
Subduction zone |
Active |
1700 Cascadia (M9.0) |
|
Central African Shear Zone |
4000 |
Central Africa |
Rift zone |
|
|
|
Cerro Prieto Fault |
|
Gulf of California, United States |
Transform |
Active |
|
|
Chino Fault |
|
California, United States |
Dextral |
Active |
|
|
Chixoy-Polochic Fault |
|
Guatemala |
Transform |
Active |
1816 Guatemala (M7.5)[5] |
|
Christchurch Fault |
|
South Island, New Zealand |
|
Active |
|
|
Chile subduction megathrust |
3000 |
West coast of Chile |
Subduction zone |
Active |
1960 Valdivia (M9.5); 1906 Valparaiso (M8.2); 2010 Maule (M8.8); 2014 Iquique (M8.2) |
|
Clarence Fault |
210 |
South Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
|
|
Clarendon-Linden fault system |
|
New York, United States |
|
|
|
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Clayton-Marsh Creek-Greenville Fault |
|
California, United States |
|
|
|
|
Cochabamba Fault Zone |
|
Bolivia |
Sinistral strike-slip |
|
|
|
Concord Fault |
18 |
California, United States |
Dextral |
Active |
|
|
Corinth Rift |
110 |
Greece |
Rift zone |
Active |
1995 Aigio (M6.2); 1981 Alkyonides (M6.4-6.7); 1861 Helike (M6.6-6.7); 373 BC Helike |
|
Craven Fault System |
|
Pennines |
Normal Fault |
Carboniferous |
|
|
Darling Fault |
950-1500 |
Western Australia, Australia |
Proterozoic |
|
|
|
Dead Sea Transform |
~1000 |
Sinai Peninsula |
Sinistral transform |
Active |
1138 Aleppo earthquake |
|
Delfi Fault Zone |
25 |
Central Greece |
Normal to strike-slip |
|
|
|
Denali Fault |
>500 |
British Columbia, Canada to Alaska, United States |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
2002 Denali (M7.9) |
|
East African Rift |
~5,000 |
East Africa |
Rift zone |
Active |
|
|
East Anatolian Fault |
~700 |
Turkey |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
2003 Bingöl (M6.4), 2010 Elâzığ (M6.1), 2020 Elâzığ (M6.7), 2023 Turkey (M7.8) |
|
Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone |
|
Alabama to Virginia, United States |
|
Active |
2003 Alabama (M4.6) |
|
Elsinore Fault Zone |
180 |
California, United States |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
|
|
Eltanin Fault System |
|
Southern Ocean |
Dextral transform |
Active |
1600 km offset |
|
Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone |
|
Hispaniola |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
2010 Haiti (M7.0), 2021 Haiti (M7.2) |
|
European Cenozoic Rift System |
1,100 |
France, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands |
Rift zone |
Active |
1992 Roermond (M5.3), 1356 Basel (M6.0-7.1) |
|
Flores Back-arc Thrust |
|
Java and Banda Sea, Indonesia |
Thrust |
Active |
July–August 2018 Lombok (M6.4-6.9) |
|
Garlock Fault |
250 |
California, United States |
Sinistral |
Active |
|
|
Glarus thrust |
|
Switzerland |
Thrust fault |
Cenozoic |
|
|
Great Glen Fault |
|
Scotland |
Strike-slip |
Silurian to Cenozoic |
|
|
Great Lakes Tectonic Zone (GLTZ) |
1400 |
Great Lakes, United States |
Tectonic zone |
Neoarchean |
|
|
Great Sumatran Fault |
1650-1900 |
Sumatra, Indonesia |
Strike-slip |
Active |
1943 Alahan Panjang (M7.2), 1994 Liwa (M7.0) |
|
Greendale Fault |
>20 |
South Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
2010 Canterbury (M7.1) |
|
Guaymas Fault |
325 |
California, United States |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
|
|
Gulf of California Rift Zone |
1300 |
Mexico |
Rift zone |
Active |
2010 Mexicali (M7.2) |
|
Gulf of Suez Rift |
>250 |
Egypt |
Rift zone |
Late Oligocene - end Miocene |
|
|
Haiyuan Fault |
1000 |
Tibet, China |
Sinistral |
Active |
1920, 1927 |
|
Hayward Fault Zone |
119 |
San Francisco Bay, California, United States |
Strike-slip |
Active |
1868 Hayward (M6.3–6.7) |
|
Hellenic Arc |
1000 |
East Mediterranean Sea |
Thrust/Strike-slip |
|
365 AD (M8.5+); 1303 AD (~8) |
|
Honey Lake Fault Zone |
|
Nevada and California, United States |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
|
|
Hope Fault |
130 |
South Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1888 North Canterbury (M7.3), 2016 North Canterbury Mw7.8 |
|
Humboldt Fault Zone |
|
Nebraska to Kansas, United States |
Normal fault |
Active |
1867 Manhattan, Kansas (M5.1) |
|
Hurricane Fault |
250 |
Utah to Arizona, United States |
Normal |
|
1992 Utah (M5.9) |
|
Imperial Fault Zone |
|
California, United States |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1940 El Centro (M6.9), 1979 Imperial Valley (M6.4) |
|
Ierapetra Fault |
40 |
Crete |
Normal fault |
|
|
|
Independence Valley fault system |
|
Nevada, United States |
Normal fault |
Active |
2008 Wells earthquake (M6.0) |
|
Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc subduction zone |
>2800 |
Micronesia |
Subduction zone |
Active |
1993 Guam (M7.8) |
|
Japan Trench |
1400 |
Off the coast of Honshu |
Subduction zone |
Active |
see Seismicity of the Sanriku coast |
|
Kabaw Fault |
>300 |
Myanmar |
Oblique-thrust |
Active |
1792 Rakhine (M8.8) |
|
Kameni-Kolumbo Fault zone |
>60 |
Greece, South Aegean Sea |
Dextral (?) Strike-slip |
|
|
|
Kandi Fault Zone |
|
West Africa |
|
|
|
|
Karakoram Fault |
1000 |
Tibet |
Oblique-slip |
|
|
|
Karsdorf Fault |
|
Germany |
|
|
|
|
Kefalonia Transform Fault |
180 |
Greece, Ionian Sea |
Dextral strike Slip |
Active |
1953 Kephalonia (M7.2) |
|
Kego Fault |
|
Japan |
|
Active |
2005 Fukuoka (M7.0) |
|
Kekerengu Fault |
|
South Island, New Zealand |
Dextral |
Active |
2016 - See Hope Fault M7.8 |
|
Kermadec-Tonga Subduction Zone |
3000 |
New Zealand |
Subduction zone |
Active |
2021 Kermadec Islands (M8.1) |
|
Kern Canyon Fault |
|
Sierra Nevada, California, United States |
Thrust fault |
|
|
|
Kunlun fault |
1500 |
Tibet |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
2001 Kunlun (M7.8) |
|
Kuril–Kamchatka Trench |
2900 |
From the Kuril Islands to the Kamchatka Peninsula |
Subduction zone |
Active |
1952 Severo-Kurilsk (M9.0) |
|
Kyaukkyan Fault |
500 |
Myanmar |
Dextral |
Active |
1912 Shan state (M7.7) |
|
Laguna Salada Fault |
64–80 |
United States and Mexico |
Strike-slip |
Active |
2010 Mexicali M7.2) |
|
Laptev Sea Rift |
|
Arctic Ocean |
Rift zone |
|
|
|
Lewis Overthrust |
|
Montana, United States |
Thrust |
Late Cretaceous to Early Paleocene |
|
|
Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault |
1000 |
Andes, Chile |
Strike-slip |
|
|
|
Long Point–Eureka Heights Fault System |
|
Texas, United States |
Normal fault |
|
|
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Longmen Shan Fault |
|
Sichuan, China |
Thrust fault |
Active |
2008 Sichuan (M8.0) |
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Lost River Fault |
|
Idaho, United States |
Normal |
Active |
1983 Borah Peak (M6.9) |
|
Lusatian Fault |
|
Germany |
Thrust fault |
|
|
|
Macquarie Fault Zone |
>400 |
South Pacific Ocean |
Fault (geology)#Strike-slip faults |
Active |
1989 Maquarie Isl. (8.2), 2008 Macquarie Island earthquake (M7.1) |
|
Mae Chan Fault |
120 |
Thailand and Laos |
Sinstral |
Active |
2007 Laos (M6.3) |
|
Magallanes–Fagnano Fault |
|
South America |
Transform |
|
|
|
Main Boundary Thrust |
2000 |
Himalaya |
Thrust |
Active (although not uniformly) |
|
|
Main Central Thrust |
2200 |
Himalaya |
Thrust |
Active (although not uniformly) |
1991 Uttarkashi (M6.8) |
|
Main Frontal Thrust |
2000 |
Himalaya |
Thrust |
Active |
1505 Lo Mustang (M8.9), 1934 Bihar (M8.0) |
|
Main Himalayan Thrust |
2000 |
Himalaya |
Subduction zone (continental collision) |
Active |
1505 Lo Mustang (M8.9), 1950 Assam-Tibet (M8.6) 2015 Gorkha (M7.8), 2015 Nepal (M7.3) |
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Main Uralian Fault (MUF) |
2000+ |
Urals |
Subduction zone |
|
|
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Marianna Fault |
|
Arkansas, United States |
|
|
|
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Marikina Valley Fault System |
|
Philippines |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
|
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Marlborough Fault System |
|
South Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1843 Wanganui (M~7.5) |
|
Meers Fault |
|
Oklahoma, United States |
Oblique slipe |
Active |
Holocene |
|
Medvednica Fault Zone |
|
Zagreb, Croatia |
Strike-slip |
Active |
1880 (M6.3), 2020 (M5.3) |
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Mendocino Fracture Zone |
|
California, United States |
Transform |
Active |
|
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Moab Fault |
|
Utah, United States |
Normal fault |
Active |
|
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Mocha Fracture Zone |
|
Mocha Island, Chile |
Transform |
Active |
|
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Motagua Fault |
|
Guatemala |
Transform |
Active |
1717, 1773, 1902, 1976, 1980, 2009 |
|
Mount Diablo Thrust |
25 |
Contra Costa County, California, United States |
Blind thrust |
Active |
|
|
Mygdonia Graben |
|
North Greece |
Normal to strike-slip |
Active |
1978 Thessaloniki (M6.4) |
|
Middle America Trench |
2750 |
West of Central America |
Subduction zone |
Active |
1982 El Salvador (M7.3), 1992 Nicaragua (M7.7) |
|
Nankai Trough |
900 |
South of Honshū, Japan |
Subduction zone |
Active |
see Nankai megathrust earthquakes |
|
Neodani Fault |
|
Japan |
Oblique-slip |
Active |
1891 Mino–Owari (M8.0) |
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New Madrid Fault Zone |
|
Missouri, United States |
Normal fault |
Active |
1811–1812 three (M7-8) |
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Nootka Fault |
|
British Columbia, Canada |
Transform |
Active |
|
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North Aegean Trough |
>250 |
North Aegean Sea, Greece, Turkey |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1912 (M7.6); 1982 (M6.7); 2014 (M6.9) |
|
North Anatolian Fault |
|
Turkey |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1939 Erzincan (M7.8), 1912 Ganos (M7.4), 1999 Izmit (M7.4), 1999 Düzce (M7.2), 2022 Düzce (M6.1) |
|
North Ikaria Fault |
>80 |
Central Aegean Sea, Greece |
Dextral strike slip |
|
|
|
North Island Fault System |
500 |
North Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike slip |
Active |
|
|
Northridge Blind Thrust |
|
San Fernando Valley, United States |
Blind thrust |
Active |
1994 Northridge (M6.7) |
|
Palu-Koro Fault |
500 |
Palu, Sigi, Donggala, Indonesia |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
2005 Bora, Sigi earthquake (M6.2), 2018 Sulawesi earthquake (M7.5) |
|
Periadriatic Seam |
1000 |
Alps, Europe |
Dextral strike-slip |
|
|
|
Pichilemu Fault |
40 |
Chile |
|
Active |
2010 Pichilemu (Libertador O'Higgins) (M6.9) |
|
Piqiang Fault |
>70 |
China |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
2024 Uqturpan earthquake |
|
Pliny Trench |
300 |
Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Hellenic Trench |
Sinistral strike-slip |
|
|
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Port Hills Fault |
|
South Island, New Zealand |
Oblique-thrust |
Active |
2011 Christchurch (M6.3) |
|
Puente Hills Thrust |
40 |
San Gabriel Valley, United States |
Blind thrust |
Active |
1987 Whittier Narrows (M5.9) |
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Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault |
800 |
Canada and Alaska |
Dextral |
Active |
1949 Graham Island (M8.1), 1958 Lituya Bay (M7.8), 2012 Haida Gwaii (M7.8) |
|
Pyramid Lake Fault Zone |
|
Nevada, United States |
Dextral strike-slip |
|
|
|
Ramapo Fault |
300 |
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, United States |
Normal fault |
Triassic to Early Jurassic |
|
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Rawat Fault |
|
Pakistan |
|
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Raymond Fault |
|
California, United States |
|
|
|
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Red River Fault |
900 |
China, Vietnam |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1970 Tonghai (M7.1), 1925 Dali (M6.9-7.0), 2021 Dali (M6.1)
|
Red Sea Rift |
|
Red Sea |
Rift zone |
|
|
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Reigolil-Pirihueico Fault |
|
Andes |
|
|
|
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Rhine Rift Valley |
|
Germany and France |
Rift zone |
Active |
1356 Basel (M6 to 7) |
|
Rio Grande Rift |
|
Rio Grande Valley, United States and Mexico |
Rift zone |
|
|
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Romeral Fault System |
700 |
Colombia |
Thrust and strike-slip |
Active |
1983 (M5.5), 1999 (M6.2) |
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Sagami Trough |
340 |
Off the coast of Honshū |
Subduction zone |
Active |
see Kantō earthquakes |
|
Sagaing Fault |
1500 |
Myanmar |
Dextral |
Active |
1839, May 1930, Dec 1930, 1946, 1956, 2012 |
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Salzach-Ennstal-Mariazell-Puchberg Fault System (SEMP) |
400[6] |
Austria |
Sinistral strike-slip |
|
|
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San Andreas Fault System (Banning fault, Mission Creek fault, South Pass fault, San Jacinto fault, Elsinore fault) |
1300 |
California, United States |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1906 San Francisco (M7.7 to 8.25), 1989 Loma Prieta (M6.9) |
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San Ramón Fault |
|
Chile |
Thrust fault |
|
|
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Sawtooth Fault |
|
Idaho, United States |
Normal fault |
|
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Seattle Fault |
|
Washington, United States |
Thrust fault |
Active |
|
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Septentrional-Orient fault zone |
|
Caribbean |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
1842 Cap-Haïtien (M8.1), 2020 (M7.7) |
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Shanxi Rift System |
≥900 |
northern China |
Rift zone |
Active |
1303 Hongdong (M7.2-7.6), 1556 Shaanxi (M8.0), 1626 Lingqiu (M7.0), 1695 Linfen (M7.8), 1815 Pinglu (M6.8) |
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Sierra Nevada Fault |
|
California, United States |
Normal fault |
Active |
1872 Lone Pine (M7.4–8.3) |
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Skyros-Edremit Fault zone |
>150 |
Aegean Sea, Greece, Turkey |
Dextral Strike-slip |
Active |
1967, 1981 |
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Sobral Fault |
|
Brazil |
Strike-slip |
|
|
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Sorong fault |
|
Oceania |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
2009 Kepulauan Talaud (M7.2) |
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South Tibetan Detachment |
2000 |
Himalaya |
Detachment (normal) |
Paleogene |
|
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Southeast Bathurst Fault Zone |
|
Bathurst Island, Nunavut, Canada |
Rift zone |
Late Cretaceous to Eocene |
|
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Sparta Fault |
65 |
Peloponnese, Greece |
Normal fault |
Active |
464 BC Sparta (M7.2) |
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Spili Fault |
20 |
Crete, Greece |
Normal fault |
Active |
|
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Strabo Trench |
300 |
Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Hellenic Trench |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
|
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Sunda subduction megathrust |
5500 |
South East Asia |
Subduction zone |
Active |
1833 Mentawai Islands (M9.2), 2004 Banda Aceh (M9.3), 2005 Nias (M8.6), 2007 Bengkulu (M8.4) |
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Tacoma Fault |
56 |
Washington, United States |
Thrust fault |
Active |
|
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Tatsuda Fault |
|
Japan |
|
Active |
1889 Kumamoto (M6.3) |
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Tintina Fault |
|
British Columbia, Canada to Alaska, United States |
Strike-slip |
Late Cretaceous to Oligocene |
|
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Ulakhan Fault |
|
Siberia to Aleutian Trench |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
|
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Ungava Fault Zone |
|
Davis Strait |
Strike-slip |
Paleogene |
|
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Virginia Seismic Zone |
|
Virginia, United States |
|
Active |
2011 Virginia (M5.8) |
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Wabash Valley Seismic Zone |
|
Illinois, Indiana, United States |
Normal fault |
Active |
2008 Illinois (M5.4) |
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Wasatch Fault |
|
Utah, United States |
Normal fault |
Active |
2020 Salt Lake City (M5.7) |
|
Wellington Fault |
>100 |
North Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
|
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West Napa Fault |
60 |
California, United States |
Dextral |
Active |
2000 Yountville, 2014 South Napa |
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Wairarapa Fault |
>100 |
North Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1855 Wairarapa (M8.2) |
|
Wairau Fault |
180 |
South Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
|
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White Wolf Fault |
|
San Joaquin Valley, California, United States |
Oblique-reverse (sinstral) |
Active |
1952 Kern County (M7.5) |
|
Whittier Fault |
|
California, United States |
Strike-slip |
Active |
|
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Wilzetta Fault |
89 |
Oklahoma, United States |
Strike-slip |
Active |
2011 Oklahoma (M5.6) |
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Xianshuihe fault system |
350 |
China |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
1973 Luhuo (M7.6), 1981 Dawu (M6.8), 2010 Yushu (M6.9), 2022 Luding (M6.7)
|
Yorba Linda Trend |
|
California, United States |
Oblique-slip |
Active |
2008 Chino Hills (M5.5) |
|