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The Sept. 24 Pakistan earthquake epicenter is plotted on the map with regional seismicity since 1990.
Credit: IRIS
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Altogether, the strike-slip Chaman Fault spans more than 500 miles (860 kilometers), crossing
through Afghanistan and Pakistan. Strike-slip faults move each side of the fracture mostly
parallel to each other.
In the north, near the town of Chaman where India jabs a knuckle into Pakistan, the fault has
zipped along at 33 millimeters (1.3 inches) every year for the past 38,000 years, according to a
study Khan's team published Sept. 12 in the journal Tectonophysics.
"That is very fast," Khan said. "That tells me there were multiple major earthquakes in the last
38,000 years."
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