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Date:	2018-09-11 01:06:15
Blog:	paleoseismicity.org
URL:	http://paleoseismicity.org/a-creeping-intracontinental-thrust-fault-in-the-tien-shan/

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The Tien Shan takes up about 20 mm/yr of N-S shortening as a result of the India-Eurasia convergence. Recent paleoseismological studies have shown that the shortening is accommodated by a large number of faults, whose slip rates are relatively low. Although the historical earthquake catalogues only reach back a few hundred years, we know that the Tien Shan has seen some of the strongest intracontinetal quakes world-wide with magnitudes exceeding M8. Paleoseismological studies have revealed a large number of surface-rupturing

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