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    The North Island Fault System (NIFS) (also known as North Island Dextral Fault Belt or North Island Shear Belt) is a set of southwest–northeast trending...
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    fault system is a reverse fault system in Bohol province, Philippines. This fault system contains three segments: the newly found North Bohol Fault following...
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  • This list covers all faults and fault-systems that are either geologically important[clarification needed] or connected to prominent seismic activity.[clarification...
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    Wellington Fault is an active seismic fault in the southern part of the North Island of New Zealand. It is a dextral (right-lateral) strike-slip fault with...
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  • The Philippine fault system is a major inter-related system of geological faults throughout the whole of the Philippine Archipelago, primarily caused...
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    Wairarapa Fault is an active seismic fault in the southern part of the North Island of New Zealand. It is a dextral (right lateral) strike-slip fault with...
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    The Otago fault system (also known as Otago reverse fault province) contains multiple faults with the potential to have rupture events greater than Mw7...
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  • Passage fault system is a major strike-slip fault system located offshore between the Batangas and Mindoro Island in the Philippines. The fault follows...
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    The Alpine Fault is a geological fault that runs almost the entire length of New Zealand's South Island, being about 600 km (370 mi). long, and forms the...
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    boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. Traditionally, for scientific purposes, the fault has been classified into three main segments...
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    Hikurangi Margin (category Seismic faults of New Zealand)
    land active fault systems would be consistent with the Kermadec Plate's unclear south western boundary being the North Island Fault System. The Kermadec...
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  • Geology of the Wellington Region (category Seismic faults of New Zealand)
    Australian Plate, compressing the Wellington Region, and causing the North Island Fault System, and a series of SSW-NNE trending basins and ranges, including...
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  • Ruahine Fault, a geological fault in the North Island Fault System, New Zealand Ngāruahine, a Māori iwi located in South Taranaki, North Island, New Zealand...
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    The Marlborough fault system (also known as Marlborough tectonic domain) is a set of four large dextral strike-slip faults and other related structures...
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  • Whakatāne Graben (category Seismic faults of New Zealand)
    graben of cross faulting from the North Island Fault System so on land the Awakeri Fault and the Edgecombe Fault define clear eastern fault boundaries. On...
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    The Ramapo Fault zone is a system of faults between the northern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont areas to the east. Spanning more than 185 miles (298 km)...
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    system. The fault is named for the Queen Charlotte Islands (now Haida Gwaii) which lie just north of the triple junction. The Queen Charlotte Fault continues...
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  • dextral (right lateral) strike-slip fault with a major reverse component, the Alpine Fault. In the North Island the displacement is mainly taken up along...
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  • Thumbnail for Transform fault
    beneath the North American plate, the San Andreas Continental Transform-Fault system was created. In New Zealand, the South Island's Alpine Fault is a transform...
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    the east is a transform fault, represented by the Swan Islands Transform Fault under the Caribbean Sea and the Motagua Fault through Guatemala. The parallel...
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    geologic faults. These include (from north to south, see map) the: Devils Mountain Fault Strawberry Point and Utsalady Point faults Southern Whidbey Island Fault...
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    Septentrional–Orient fault zone (SOFZ) is a system of active coaxial left lateral-moving strike slip faults that runs along the northern side of the island of Hispaniola...
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    traditions. Extensive research has since shown the Seattle Fault to be part of a regional system of faults. First suspected from mapping of gravitational anomalies...
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  • strike-slip component is accommodated by the North Island Fault System. The earthquake occurred on the Hope Fault, one of the group of dextral strike-slip...
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  • The Sibuyan Sea Fault is a part of the Philippine Fault System, a major inter-related system of geological faults throughout the whole of the Philippine...
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    The Hayward Fault Zone is a right-lateral strike-slip geologic fault zone capable of generating destructive earthquakes. The fault was first named in the...
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    Garden fault zone (EPGFZ or EPGZ) is a system of active coaxial left lateral-moving strike slip faults which runs along the southern side of the island of...
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    plates. Situated on Bathurst Island is the Southeast Bathurst Fault Zone, a north–south trending system of normal faults that form a graben-like structure...
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    north of the island is a 15 km (9.3 mi) wide zone of closely spaced NNE- to NE-trending faults while to the south of the island north of the island the...
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    accommodated by the North Island Fault System (NIFS). The earthquake is thought to have occurred on one of the larger thrust faults within the accretionary...
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