Kunlun Fault

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The Kunlun Fault is a major active left-lateral strike-slip fault to the north side of Tibet. Slippage along the {{convert|1500|km|mi|adj=mid|-long}} fault has occurred at a constant rate for the last 40,000 years. This has resulted in a cumulative offset of more than {{convert|400|m}}.{{cite web | title = The Kunlun Fault | url = http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=871 | work = Earth Observatory | publisher = NASA | date = 2000-10-10 | accessdate = 2010-04-15}} The fault is seismically active, most recently causing the magnitude 7.8 2001 Kunlun earthquake.{{cite journal|last=Klinger|first=Y. |author2=Xu X. |author3=Taponnier P. |author4=Vand der Woierd J. |author5=Lasserre C. |author6=King G. |year=2005|title=High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Mapping of the Surface Rupture and Slip Distribution of the Mw ~7.8, 14 November 2001 Kokoxili Earthquake, Kunlun Fault, Northern Tibet, China|journal=Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America|volume=95|issue=5|pages=1970–1987|doi=10.1785/0120040233|url=https://www.academia.edu/16922094|accessdate=15 June 2010|bibcode = 2005BuSSA..95.1970K }} It forms the northeastern boundary of the elongate wedge of the Tibetan Plateau known as the Bayan Har block.{{Cite journal |last1=Xu |first1=X.W. |last2=Wen |first2=X.Z. |last3=Chen |first3=G.H. |last4=Yu |first4=G.H. |date=2008 |title=Discovery of the Longriba Fault Zone in Eastern Bayan Har Block, China and its tectonic implication |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226744920 |journal=Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences |volume=51 |issue=9 |pages=1209–1223|doi=10.1007/s11430-008-0097-1 }}