Haiyuan Fault information

The Haiyuan Fault is a major active intracontinental strike-slip (sinistral) fault in Central Asia. The Haiyuan Fault forms part of the northeastern boundary...

The 1920 Haiyuan earthquake (Chinese: 海原大地震; pinyin: Hǎiyuán dà dìzhèn) occurred on December 16 in Haiyuan County, Ningxia Province, Republic of China...

This list covers all faults and fault-systems that are either geologically important[clarification needed] or connected to prominent seismic activity.[clarification...

thrust fault system in the Qilian Mountains transpressional zone, formed at a restraining bend on the Haiyuan fault. Another segment of the Haiyuan fault was...

& Shen Z.-K. (2008). "Measurement of interseismic strain across the Haiyuan fault (Gansu, China), by InSAR" (PDF). Earth and Planetary Science Letters...

The geological structure responsible was the Lenglongling Fault, a segment of the Haiyuan Fault System. The rupture was mostly confined to 0–8 km within...

lateral) strike-slip faults, such as the Kunlun Fault and Haiyuan Fault. A major splay of the Haiyuan Fault is the Tianjingshan Fault, which is also a sinistral...

by the Xianshuihe fault system, Haiyuan Fault, Kunlun Fault, Altyn Tagh fault, and Longmenshan Fault. The presence of active faults in Sichuan makes the...

through major faults and their splays along the plateau, such as the Altyn Tagh Fault, Kunlun Fault, Haiyuan Fault, and Xianshuihe fault systems. Left-lateral...

along large structures including the Altyn Tagh Fault, Kunlun Fault, Haiyuan Fault and Xianshuihe fault system. Left-lateral strike-slip motion squeezes...

left-lateral faulting. A great portion of strike-slip deformation is accommodated along the Altyn Tagh, Kunlun, Haiyuan and Xianshuihe fault systems. The...

Zhang Peizhen (1983). "Active Faulting and the formation of a Pullapart Basin along the Western Part of the Haiyuan fault, China, EOS, Trans". Am. Geophys...

along large structures including the Altyn Tagh Fault, Kunlun Fault, Haiyuan Fault and Xianshuihe fault system. Left-lateral strike-slip motion squeezes...

along large structures including the Altyn Tagh Fault, Kunlun Fault, Haiyuan Fault and Xianshuihe fault system. Left-lateral strike-slip motion squeezes...

along large structures including the Altyn Tagh Fault, Kunlun Fault, Haiyuan Fault and Xianshuihe fault system. Left-lateral strike-slip motion squeezes...

along large structures including the Altyn Tagh Fault, Kunlun Fault, Haiyuan Fault and Xianshuihe fault system. Left-lateral strike-slip motion squeezes...

was named Zhongwei, part of Shaanxi. In 1920 Zhongwei was struck by the Haiyuan earthquake. In 1926 the highway from Lanzhou to Zhongwei opened. Zhongwei's...

to tsunamis. 2010 Haiti earthquake M 7.0, 100,000–316,000 deaths. 1920 Haiyuan (Gansu) earthquake (China) M 7.8, 200,000–273,400 deaths. 856 Damghan earthquake...

caves tended to have big casualties, including the 1303 Hongdong and 1920 Haiyuan earthquakes. The most recent earthquake with a death toll of more than...

Mark B.; Zhang, Weiheng; Du, Peng (March 2021). "Landslides of the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake, northern China" (PDF). Landslides. 18 (3): 935–953. Bibcode:2021Lands...

SHUNMIN, ROBERT E. WALLACE, ROBERT C. BUCKNAM, AND THOMAS C. HANKS (1986). "Fault scarps related to the 1739 earthquake and seismicity of the Yinchuan graben...

damaged 104 villages. Length 185 km (115 mi). 16 Dec 1920 Haiyuan County, Ningxia, China 1920 Haiyuan earthquake >100,000 Loess flows and landslides over an...

Dammed Lake at Dangjiacha, Xiji Site of Large Earthquake and Active Fault Zone in Haiyuan † †: The official name is yet to be verified. Ratified by: State...

banks and cliffs. The 20th century saw 273,400 people killed in the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake and a magnitude 8.6 earthquake in 1950, the largest recorded...