Co-seismic and cumulative offsets of the recent earthquakes along the Karakax left-lateral strike-slip fault in western Tibet

• Main Authors: Li, Haibing, Van der Woerd, Jérôme, Sun, Zhiming, Si, Jialiang, Tapponnier, Paul, Pan, Jiawei, Liu, Dongliang, Chevalier, Marie-Luce
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98338; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16268
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The 400 km-long Karakax left-lateral strike-slip fault is the westernmost segment of the Altyn Tagh fault. It separates northwestern Tibet to the south from the Tarim basin to the north. The western section of the Karakax fault exhibits clear co-seismic surface ruptures of past large earthquakes. Ge...