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Haiyuan Fault, the Glossary

The Haiyuan Fault is a major active intracontinental strike-slip (sinistral) fault in Central Asia.^[1]

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Geology of China
Geology of Tibet
Seismic faults of Asia

Active fault

An active fault is a fault that is likely to become the source of another earthquake sometime in the future.

The Altyn Tagh Fault (ATF) is a 2,000 km long, active, sinistral (left lateral) strike-slip fault that forms the northwestern boundary of the Tibetan Plateau with the Tarim Basin. Haiyuan Fault and Altyn Tagh fault are geology of China, seismic faults of Asia and strike-slip faults.

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Aseismic creep

In geology, aseismic creep or fault creep is measurable surface displacement along a fault in the absence of notable earthquakes.

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Ürümqi

Ürümqi is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwestern China.

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Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA) is a bimonthly peer reviewed scientific journal published by the Seismological Society of America.

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China seismic intensity scale

The China seismic intensity scale (CSIS) is a national standard in the People's Republic of China used to measure seismic intensity.

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Continental collision

In geology, continental collision is a phenomenon of plate tectonics that occurs at convergent boundaries.

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Continental crust

Continental crust is the layer of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks that forms the geological continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves.

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Earthquake rupture

In seismology, an earthquake rupture is the extent of slip that occurs during an earthquake in the Earth's crust.

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Elsevier

Elsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content.

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Eurasian Plate

The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate that includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and Asia), with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent and the area east of the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia.

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Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.

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Haiyuan County

Haiyuan County (Xiao'erjing: خَيْ‌يُوًا ثِيًا) is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Zhongwei in the southwest of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China.

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Indian Plate

The Indian Plate (or India Plate) is a minor tectonic plate straddling the equator in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Kunlun Fault

The Kunlun Fault is a major active left-lateral strike-slip fault to the north side of Tibet. Haiyuan Fault and Kunlun Fault are geology of China, geology of Tibet, seismic faults of Asia and strike-slip faults.

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Lanzhou

Lanzhou is the capital and largest city of Gansu province in northwestern China.

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Menyuan Hui Autonomous County

Menyuan Hui Autonomous County (p, Xiao'erjing) is a county in the northeast of Qinghai Province, China, bordering Gansu Province to the north.

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Modified Mercalli intensity scale

The Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MM, MMI, or MCS) measures the effects of an earthquake at a given location.

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Qilian Mountains

The Qilian Mountains (also romanized as Tsilien; Mongghul: Chileb), together with the Altyn-Tagh (Altun Shan) also known as Nan Shan (literally "Southern Mountains"), as it is to the south of Hexi Corridor, is a northern outlier of the Kunlun Mountains, forming the border between Qinghai and the Gansu provinces of northern China.

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Seismic gap

A seismic gap is a segment of an active fault known to produce significant earthquakes that has not slipped in an unusually long time, compared with other segments along the same structure.

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Songshan, Gansu

Songshan is a town of Bairi (Tenzhu) Tibetan Autonomous County in southeastern Gansu province, China, located due east of the county seat.

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Strike-slip tectonics

Strike-slip tectonics or wrench tectonics is a type of tectonics that is dominated by lateral (horizontal) movements within the Earth's crust (and lithosphere).

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Surface rupture

In seismology, surface rupture (or ground rupture, or ground displacement) is the visible offset of the ground surface when an earthquake rupture along a fault affects the Earth's surface.

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Thrust fault

A thrust fault is a break in the Earth's crust, across which older rocks are pushed above younger rocks.

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Tibetan Plateau

The Tibetan Plateau, also known as Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and Qing–Zang Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South, and East Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region, most of Qinghai, western half of Sichuan, Southern Gansu provinces in Western China, southern Xinjiang, Bhutan, the Indian regions of Ladakh and Lahaul and Spiti (Himachal Pradesh) as well as Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, northwestern Nepal, eastern Tajikistan and southern Kyrgyzstan.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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Xianshuihe fault system

The Xianshuihe fault system or the Yushu-Ganzi-Xianshuihe fault system is a major active sinistral (left-lateral) strike-slip fault zone in southwestern China, at the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Haiyuan Fault and Xianshuihe fault system are geology of China, seismic faults of Asia and strike-slip faults.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiyuan_Fault