Fault Name |
Length [km] |
Location |
Sense of Movement |
Time of movement |
Associated Earthquakes
|
Aedipsos-Kandili Fault |
60 |
North Euboean Gulf, Greece |
Normal |
Active |
|
Alaska-Aleutian Megathrust |
3600 |
Kamchatka, Russia to Gulf of Alaska |
Subduction zone |
Active |
1964 Prince William Sound (M9.2), 1965 Rat Islands (M8.7), 1957 Andreanof Islands (M8.6)
|
Alpine Fault |
1400 |
South Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
2009 Fiordland (M7.8)
|
Altyn Tagh Fault |
1200 |
Tibetan Plateau/Tarim Basin |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
|
Amfilochia Fault |
60 |
Western Greece |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
|
Amorgos Fault |
>100 |
Greece, South Aegean Sea |
Normal |
Active |
1956 Amorgos (M7.4)[1]
|
Arkitsa – Agios Konstantinos Fault zone |
25 |
Central Greece |
Normal |
|
|
Aspy Fault |
40 |
Nova Scotia |
Strike-slip |
|
|
Atacama Fault |
800 |
Atacama desert, Chile |
Strike-slip |
Active |
|
Atalanti Fault |
50 |
Central Greece |
Normal Fault |
Active |
1894 Atalanti (M6.4, M6.9)
|
Atotsugawa Fault |
|
Japan |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1858 Hietsu earthquake (M~7)
|
Awatere Fault |
|
South Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1848 Marlborough (M7.5)
|
Azores–Gibraltar Transform Fault |
2250 |
Azores to Strait of Gibraltar |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1755 Lisbon earthquake (est. M7.5–8.0), 1969 Cape St. Vincent (M7.9), 1941 Gloria Fault (M8.0)
|
Baikal Rift Zone |
|
Lake Baikal |
Rift zone |
Active |
|
Ballenas Fault |
|
Gulf of California, United States |
Transform |
Active |
|
Brothers Fault Zone |
|
Oregon, United States |
|
|
|
Bulnay Fault
|
370
|
Mongolia
|
Sinstral
|
Active
|
1905 Bolnai (M8.3)
|
Calaveras Fault
|
120
|
San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
|
Dextral
|
Active
|
1911 Morgan Hill (M6.5), 1984 Morgan Hill (M6.2)
|
Cascadia megathrust |
1000 |
West coast of United States – Oregon & Washington Vancouver Island, Canada |
Subduction zone |
Active |
1700 Cascadia (M9.0)
|
Central African Shear Zone |
4000 |
Central Africa |
Rift zone |
|
|
Cerro Prieto Fault |
|
Gulf of California, United States |
Transform |
Active |
|
Chino Fault
|
|
California, United States
|
Dextral
|
Active
|
|
Chixoy-Polochic Fault |
|
Guatemala |
Transform |
Active |
1816 Guatemala (M7.5)[2]
|
Christchurch Fault |
|
South Island, New Zealand |
|
Active |
|
Chile subduction megathrust |
3000 |
West coast of Chile |
Subduction zone |
Active |
1960 Valdivia (M9.5); 1906 Valparaiso (M8.2); 2010 Maule (M8.8); 2014 Iquique (M8.2)
|
Clarence Fault |
|
South Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
|
Clarendon-Linden fault system |
|
New York, United States |
|
|
|
Clayton-Marsh Creek-Greenville Fault |
|
California, United States |
|
|
|
Cochabamba Fault Zone |
|
Bolivia |
Sinistral strike-slip |
|
|
Concord Fault
|
18
|
California, United States
|
Dextral
|
Active
|
|
Corinth Rift |
110 |
Greece |
Normal Fault |
Active |
1995 Aegion (M6.2); 1981 Alkyonides; 1861 Helike; 373 BC Helike
|
Craven Fault System |
|
Pennines |
Normal Fault |
Carboniferous |
|
Darling Fault
|
950-1500
|
Western Australia, Australia
|
|
Proterozoic
|
|
Dead Sea Transform |
|
Sinai Peninsula |
Sinistral transform |
Active |
1138 Aleppo earthquake
|
Delfi Fault Zone |
25 |
Central Greece |
Normal to strike-slip |
|
|
Denali Fault |
|
British Columbia, Canada to Alaska, United States |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
2002 Denali (M7.9)
|
East Anatolian Fault |
|
Turkey |
Strike-slip |
Active |
2003 Bingöl (M6.4), 2010 Elâzığ (M6.1), 2020 Elâzığ (M6.7)
|
Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone |
|
Alabama to Virginia, United States |
|
Active |
2003 Alabama (M4.6)
|
Elsinore Fault Zone |
180 |
California, United States |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
|
Eltanin Fault System |
|
Southern Ocean |
Dextral transform |
Active |
1600 km offset
|
Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone |
|
Hispaniola |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
2010 Haiti (M7.0)
|
Flores Back-arc Thrust
|
|
Java and Banda Sea, Indonesia
|
Thrust
|
Active
|
July-August 2018 Lombok (M6.4-6.9)
|
Garlock Fault
|
250
|
California, United States
|
Sinistral
|
Active
|
|
Glarus thrust |
|
Switzerland |
Thrust fault |
Cenozoic |
|
Great Glen Fault |
|
Scotland |
Strike-slip |
Silurian to Cenozoic |
|
Great Lakes Tectonic Zone (GLTZ) |
1,400 |
Great Lakes, United States |
Tectonic zone |
Neoarchean |
|
Great Sumatran Fault |
1650-1900
|
Sumatra, Indonesia |
Strike-slip |
Active |
1943 Alahan Panjang (M7.2), 1994 Liwa (M7.0)
|
Greendale Fault |
|
South Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
2010 Canterbury (M7.1)
|
Guaymas Fault |
325 |
California, United States |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
|
Gulf of California Rift Zone |
1300 |
Mexico |
Rift zone |
Active |
2010 Mexicali (M7.2)
|
Haiyuan Fault
|
1000
|
Tibet, China
|
Sinistral
|
Active
|
1920, 1927
|
Hayward Fault Zone |
119 |
San Francisco Bay, California, United States |
Strike-slip |
Active |
1868 Hayward (M6.3–6.7)
|
Hellenic Arc |
1000 |
East Mediterranean Sea |
Thrust/Strike-slip |
|
365 AD (M8.5+); 1303 AD (~8)
|
Honey Lake Fault Zone |
|
Nevada and California, United States |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
|
Hope Fault |
|
South Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1888 North Canterbury (M7.3)
|
Humboldt Fault Zone |
|
Nebraska to Kansas, United States |
Normal fault |
Active |
1867 Manhattan, Kansas (M5.1)
|
Hurricane Fault
|
250
|
Utah to Arizona, United States
|
Normal
|
|
1992 Utah (M5.9)
|
Imperial Fault Zone |
|
California, United States |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1940 El Centro (M6.9), 1979 Imperial Valley (M6.4)
|
Ierapetra Fault |
40 |
Crete |
Normal fault |
|
|
Independence Valley fault system |
|
Nevada, United States |
Normal fault |
Active |
2008 Wells earthquake (M6.0)
|
Japan Trench
|
1,400
|
Off the coast of Honshu
|
Subduction zone
|
Active
|
see Seismicity of the Sanriku coast
|
Kabaw Fault
|
>300
|
Myanmar
|
Oblique-thrust
|
Active
|
1792 Rakhine (M8.8)
|
Kameni-Kolumbo Fault zone |
>60 |
Greece, South Aegean Sea |
Dextral (?) Strike-slip |
|
|
Kandi Fault Zone |
|
West Africa |
|
|
|
Karakoram Fault
|
>1000
|
Tibet
|
Oblique-slip
|
|
|
Karsdorf Fault |
|
Germany |
|
|
|
Kefalonia Transform Fault |
180 |
Greece, Ionian Sea |
Dextral strike Slip |
Active |
1953 Kephalonia (M7.2)
|
Kego Fault |
|
Japan |
|
Active |
2005 Fukuoka (M7.0)
|
Kekerengu Fault
|
|
New Zealand
|
Dextral
|
Active
|
2016 Kaikōura (M7.8)
|
Kermadec-Tonga Subduction Zone |
|
New Zealand |
Subduction zone |
Active |
|
Kern Canyon Fault |
|
Sierra Nevada, California, United States |
Thrust fault |
|
|
Kunlun fault |
1500 |
Tibet |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
2001 Kunlun (M7.8)
|
Kuril–Kamchatka Trench
|
2900
|
From the Kuril Islands to the Kamchatka Peninsula
|
Subduction zone
|
Active
|
|
Kyaukkyan Fault
|
500
|
Myanmar
|
Dextral
|
Active
|
1912 Shan state (M7.7)
|
Laguna Salada Fault |
64–80 |
United States and Mexico |
Strike-slip |
Active |
2010 Mexicali M7.2)
|
Laptev Sea Rift |
|
Arctic Ocean |
Rift zone |
|
|
Lewis Overthrust
|
|
Montana, United States
|
Thrust
|
Late Cretaceous to Early Paleocene
|
|
Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault |
1000 |
Andes, Chile |
Strike-slip |
|
|
Long Point–Eureka Heights Fault System |
|
Texas, United States |
Normal fault |
|
|
Longmen Shan Fault |
|
Sichuan, China |
Thrust fault |
Active |
2008 Sichuan (M8.0)
|
Lost River Fault
|
|
Idaho, United States
|
Normal
|
Active
|
1983 Borah Peak (M6.9)
|
Lusatian Fault |
|
Germany |
Thrust fault |
|
|
Macquarie Fault Zone |
|
South Pacific Ocean |
Strike-slip |
Active |
2008 Macquarie Island earthquake (M7.1)
|
Mae Chan Fault
|
120
|
Thailand and Laos
|
Sinstral
|
Active
|
2007 Laos (M6.3)
|
Magallanes–Fagnano Fault |
|
South America |
Transform |
|
|
Main Boundary Thrust
|
>2000
|
Himalaya
|
Thrust
|
Active (although not uniformly)
|
|
Main Central Thrust
|
2200
|
Himalaya
|
Thrust
|
Active (although not uniformly)
|
1991 Uttarkashi (M6.8)
|
Main Frontal Thrust
|
>2000
|
Himalaya
|
Thrust
|
Active
|
1505 Lo Mustang (M8.9), 1934 Bihar (M8.0)
|
Main Himalayan Thrust
|
>2000
|
Himalaya
|
Subduction zone (continental collision)
|
Active
|
1505 Lo Mustang (M8.9), 1950 Assam-Tibet (M8.6) 2015 Gorkha (M7.8), 2015 Nepal (M7.3)
|
Main Uralian Fault (MUF) |
2000+ |
Urals |
Subduction zone |
|
|
Marianna Fault |
|
Arkansas, United States |
|
|
|
Marikina Valley Fault System |
|
Philippines |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
|
Marlborough Fault System |
|
South Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1843 Wanganui (M~7.5)
|
Meers Fault |
|
Oklahoma |
Oblique slipe |
Active |
Holocene
|
Mendocino Fracture Zone |
|
California, United States |
Transform |
Active |
|
Moab Fault |
|
Utah, United States |
Normal fault |
Active |
|
Mocha Fracture Zone |
|
Mocha Island, Chile |
Transform |
Active |
|
Motagua Fault |
|
Guatemala |
Transform |
Active |
1717, 1773, 1902, 1976, 1980, 2009
|
Mount Diablo Thrust
|
25
|
Contra Costa County, California, United States
|
Blind thrust
|
Active
|
|
Mygdonia Graben |
|
North Greece |
Normal to strike-slip |
Active |
1978 Thessaloniki (M6.4)
|
Nankai Trough
|
900
|
South of Honshū, Japan
|
Subduction zone
|
Active
|
see Nankai megathrust earthquakes
|
Neodani Fault |
|
Japan |
|
Active |
1891 Mino–Owari (M8.0)
|
New Madrid Fault Zone |
|
Missouri, United States |
Normal fault |
Active |
1811–1812 three (M7-8)
|
Nootka Fault |
|
British Columbia, Canada |
Transform |
Active |
|
North Aegean Trough |
>250 |
North Aegean Sea, Greece, Turkey |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1912 (M7.6); 1982 (M6.7); 2014 (M6.9)
|
North Anatolian Fault |
|
Turkey |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1939 Erzincan (M7.8), 1912 Ganos (M7.4), 1999 Izmit (M7.4), 1999 Düzce (M7.2)
|
North Ikaria Fault |
>80 |
Central Aegean Sea, Greece |
Dextral strike slip |
|
|
North Island Fault System |
500 |
North Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike slip |
Active |
|
Northridge Blind Thrust
|
|
San Fernando Valley, United States
|
Blind thrust
|
Active
|
1994 Northridge (M6.7)
|
Palu-Koro Fault |
500 |
Palu, Sigi, Donggala, Indonesia |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
2005 Bora, Sigi earthquake (M6.2), 2018 Sulawesi earthquake (M7.5)
|
Periadriatic Seam |
1000 |
Alps, Europe |
Dextral strike-slip |
|
|
Pichilemu Fault |
40 |
Chile |
|
Active |
2010 Pichilemu (Libertador O'Higgins) (M6.9)
|
Piquiang Fault
|
>70
|
China
|
Sinistral strike-slip
|
|
|
Pliny Trench |
300 |
Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Hellenic Trench |
Sinistral strike-slip |
|
|
Port Hills Fault |
|
South Island, New Zealand |
|
Active |
2011 Christchurch (M6.3)
|
Puente Hills Thrust
|
40
|
San Gabriel Valley, United States
|
Blind thrust
|
Active
|
1987 Whittier Narrows (M5.9)
|
Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault
|
|
Canada and Alaska
|
Dextral
|
Active
|
1949 Graham Island (M8.1), 1958 Lituya Bay (M7.8), 2012 Haida Gwaii (M7.8)
|
Pyramid Lake Fault Zone |
|
Nevada, United States |
Dextral strike-slip |
|
|
Ramapo Fault |
300 |
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, United States |
Normal fault |
Triassic to Early Jurassic |
|
Rawat Fault
|
|
Pakistan
|
|
|
|
Raymond Fault |
|
California, United States |
|
|
|
Red Sea Rift |
|
Red Sea |
Rift zone |
|
|
Reigolil-Pirihueico Fault |
|
Andes |
|
|
|
Rhine Rift Valley |
|
Germany and France |
Rift zone |
Active |
1356 Basel (M6 to 7)
|
Rio Grande Rift |
|
Rio Grande Valley, United States and Mexico |
Rift zone |
|
|
Romeral Fault System
|
700
|
Colombia
|
Thrust and strike-slip
|
Active
|
1983 (M5.5), 1999 (M6.2)
|
Sagami Trough
|
340
|
Off the coast of Honshū
|
Subduction zone
|
Active
|
see Kantō earthquakes
|
Sagaing Fault
|
1,500
|
Myanmar
|
Dextral
|
Active
|
1839, May 1930, Dec 1930, 1946, 1956, 2012
|
Salzach-Ennstal-Mariazell-Puchberg Fault System (SEMP) |
400[3] |
Austria |
Sinistral strike-slip |
|
|
San Andreas Fault System (Banning fault, Mission Creek fault, South Pass fault, San Jacinto fault, Elsinore fault) |
1300 |
California, United States |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1906 San Francisco (M7.7 to 8.25), 1989 Loma Prieta (M6.9)
|
San Ramón Fault |
|
Chile |
Thrust fault |
|
|
Sawtooth Fault |
|
Idaho, United States |
Normal fault |
|
|
Seattle Fault |
|
Washington, United States |
Thrust fault |
Active |
|
Septentrional-Orient fault zone |
|
Caribbean |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
1842 Cap-Haïtien (M8.1)
|
Sierra Nevada Fault |
|
California, United States |
Normal fault |
Active |
1872 Lone Pine (M7.4–8.3)
|
Skyros-Edremit Fault zone |
>150 |
Aegean Sea, Greece, Turkey |
Dextral Strike-slip |
Active |
1967, 1981
|
Sobral Fault |
|
Brazil |
Strike-slip |
|
|
Sorong fault |
|
Oceania |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
2009 Kepulauan Talaud (M7.2)
|
South Tibetan Detachment
|
2000
|
Himalaya
|
Detachment (normal)
|
Paleogene
|
|
Sparta Fault |
65 |
Peloponnese, Greece |
Normal fault |
Active |
464 BC Sparta (M7.2)
|
Spili Fault |
20 |
Crete, Greece |
Normal fault |
Active |
|
Strabo Trench |
300 |
Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Hellenic Trench |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
|
Sunda subduction megathrust |
5500 |
South East Asia |
Subduction zone |
Active |
2004 Banda Aceh (M9.1), 2005 Nias (M8.6), 2007 Bengkulu (M8.4)
|
Tacoma Fault |
56 |
Washington, United States |
Thrust fault |
Active |
|
Tatsuda Fault |
|
Japan |
|
Active |
1889 Kumamoto (M6.3)
|
Tintina Fault |
|
British Columbia, Canada to Alaska, United States |
Strike-slip |
Late Cretaceous to Oligocene |
|
Ulakhan Fault |
|
Siberia to Aleutian Trench |
Sinistral strike-slip |
Active |
|
Virginia Seismic Zone |
|
Virginia, United States |
|
Active |
2011 Virginia (M5.8)
|
Wabash Valley Seismic Zone |
|
Illinois, Indiana, United States |
Normal fault |
Active |
2008 Illinois (M5.4)
|
Wasatch Fault |
|
Utah, United States |
Normal fault |
Active |
2020 Salt Lake City (M5.7)
|
Wellington Fault |
|
North Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
|
West Napa Fault
|
60
|
California, United States
|
Dextral
|
Active
|
2000 Yountville, 2014 South Napa
|
Wairarapa Fault |
|
North Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
1855 Wairarapa (M8.2)
|
Wairau Fault |
|
South Island, New Zealand |
Dextral strike-slip |
Active |
|
White Wolf Fault
|
|
San Joaquin Valley, United States
|
Oblique-reverse (sinstral)
|
Active
|
1952 Kern County (M7.5)
|
Whittier Fault
|
|
California, United States
|
Blind thrust
|
Active
|
2008 Chino Hills (M5.5)
|
Wilzetta Fault |
89 |
Oklahoma, United States |
Strike-slip |
Active |
2011 Oklahoma (M5.6)
|
Yorba Linda Trend
|
|
California, United States
|
|
|
|