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FAULTS OF INDIAN PLATE Muzaffarabad Fault

Jhelum fault Sagaing Fault

Kalabagh FaultChaman FaultBalakot Fault

MBT FaultMKT Fault

Harnai Fault Ornach-Nal Fault

Pakistan Geology

Pakistan geologically overlaps both with the Indian and the Eurasian tectonic plates where its Sindh and Punjab provinces lie on the north-western corner of the Indian plate while Balochistan and most of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa lie within the Eurasian plate which mainly comprises the Iranian plateau, some parts of the Middle East and Central Asia. The Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir lie mainly in Central Asia along the edge of the Indian plate and hence are prone to violent earthquakes where the two tectonic plates collide.

Muzaffarabad Fault

Muzaffarabad fault occurred between the late Cambrian Abbottabad Formation and the Miocene Murree Formation from Balakot to Muzaffarabad city which is a major unconformity, while from Muzaffarabad city to Bagh through Chikar it runs within the Murree Formation

Muzaffarabad Fault

The city of Muzaffarabad lies close to the junction of two active faults, the

Muzaffarabad Thrust and the Jhelum Fault. The former is responsible for the deadly

earthquake of October 08, 2005; whereas the Jhelum Fault has been relatively inactive

in the recent past.

Jhelum Fault Jhelum Fault is a NS oriented upright strike slip

fault, marking the southern continuation of western limb of Hazara

Kashmir Syntaxis from Muzaffarabad In the mapped area the Murree Formation is

exposed to the east of Jhelum Fault and is found only in the axial zone of the Hazara Kashmir Syntaxis

After crossing Chathar area in Muzaffarabad, Jhelum Fault runs parallel to the Jhelum

River in N-S direction and exhibits a sharp contact at most of its exposures

Sagaing Fault

the Sagaing Fault, a 1500 km long tectonic fault that passes through the cities of Nay Pyi Taw (Myanmar's capital since 2007), Bago, Sagaing and Mandalay, and close to Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon

Geomorphic expression of the Sagaing Fault: 6 km long elongate pressure ridge, part of a

system of ridges bounded by the active fault forcing the Ayeyawady River to flow

straight. View from the Indian plate side (west) to the Eurasian side (east

Kalabagh Fault

The 120-km-long Kalabagh fault zone is formed by transpressive right-lateral strike-slip along the western Salt Range

Kalabagh fault indicate 12–14 km of middle to late Quaternary right-lateral offset western Salt Range

CHAMAN FAULT

The Chaman Fault is a major, active geological fault in Pakistan and Afghanistan that runs for over 850 km.[1] Tectonically, it is actually a system of related geologic faults that separates the Eurasian Plate from the Indo-Australian Plate. It is a terrestrial, primarily transform, left-lateral

 strike-slip fault The Chaman fault system has a compressional component as the Indian Plate is colliding with

the Eurasian Plate. This type of plate boundary is sometimes called a transpressional boundary

Chaman Fault

From the south, the Chaman fault starts at the triple junction where the Arabian Plate, the Eurasian Plate and the Indo-Australian Plate meet, which is just off the Makran Coast of Pakistan. The fault tracks northeast across Balochistan and then north-northeast into Afghanistan, runs just to the west of Kabul,

Balakot Fault

Balakot Fault at the western limb of the Hazara-Kashmir Syntaxis and the Raikot-Sassi Fault at the western limb of the Nanga Parbat Syntaxis

Main Mantle Thrust

Rocks south of the Main Mantle Thrust (MMT) in Swat, Pakistan consist predominantly of Precambrian to Paleozoic granitic gneisses and metasedimentary rocks that represent the deformed and metamorphosed northern margin of the Indian subcontinent

Karakoram Fault

The Karakoram fault is an oblique-slip fault system in the Himalaya region across India and Asia

The creation of the Karakoram fault started with the closing of the ancient Tethys ocean seaway which once separated the two modern continents of Asia and India

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