Red River Fault

Topographic map showing the Red River and fault

The Red River Fault or Song Hong Fault (

Burma, which accommodates the Indian plate's northward movement, with the land (Indochina) in between faulted and twisted clockwise. It was responsible for the 1970 Tonghai earthquake

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It is named after the Red River which runs through the valley eroded along the fault trace.

The Red River Fault was a sinistral strike-slip shear zone until Miocene times when it became reactivated as a brittle dextral strike-slip fault.^[2]^[3]

References

^ Earth Observatory of Singapore, NTU. "Myanmar earthquake of March 24, 2011 – Magnitude 6.8". Archived from the original on 2012-12-23. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
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[1] Earth Observatory of Singapore, NTU. "Myanmar earthquake of March 24, 2011 – Magnitude 6.8". Archived from the original on 2012-12-23. Retrieved 2012-11-07.

[Watkinson_etal_2008-2] :10.1016/j.jsg.2008.09.001
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[Trinh_etal_2012-3] :10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.06.008
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