This is a list of faults in Pakistan.

Geology

Chaman Fault

The Chaman Fault is a major, active geological fault in Pakistan and Afghanistan that runs for over 850 km."USGS Unveils How Earthquakes Pose Risks to Afghanistan" News Release, 30 May 2007, United States Geological Survey 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 slippage rate along the Chaman fault system as the Indo-Australian Plate moves northward (relative to the Eurasian Plate) has been estimated at 10 mm/yr or more. In addition to its primary transform aspect, 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."Earthquakes Pose a Serious Hazard in Afghanistan" Fact Sheet 2007–3027, April 2007, United States Geological Survey

Shyok Suture Zone The Shyok Suture Zone is a cretaceous-tertiary suture located in Gilgit-Baltistan which separates the Karakoram from the cretaceous Kohistan–Ladakh oceanic arc. In previously published interpretations, the Shyok Suture Zone marks either the site of subduction of a wide Tethys Ocean, or represents an early cretaceous intra-continental marginal basin along the southern margin of Asia. A sedimentological, structural and igneous geochemical study was made of a well-exposed traverse in Skardu. To the south of the Shyok Suture Zone in this area is the Ladakh Arc and its Late Cretaceous, mainly volcanogenic, sedimentary cover (Burje-La Formation). The Shyok Suture Zone extends northwards (ca. 30 km) to the late tertiary Main Karakoram Thrust that transported Asian, mainly high-grade metamorphic rocks southwards over the suture zone.

Other faults Main Karakoram Thrust Riasi Thrust Salt Range Thrust Bannu Fault Quetta-Chiltan Fault Allah Bund Fault Hoshab Fault Makran Coastal Fault Main Mantle Thrust Main Frontal Thrust Jhelum Fault Kalabagh Fault Kurram Fault Ornach-Nal Transform Fault Kirthar Fault Kutch Mainland Fault Nagar Parkar Fault Nai Rud Fault Rawat Fault Raikot Fault Jhelum Fault (Punjab) Punjal-Khairabad Thrust (Punjab) Kurram Fault (KPK) Kirthar Fault (Sind) Pab Fault (Sind)

See also List of earthquakes in Pakistan Geology of Pakistan

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