Electronic Supplement to
Surface Rupture of the Kunlunshan Earthquake (Ms 8.1), Northern Tibetan Plateau, China

Photo Gallery of Surface Rupture Evidence from the
Kunlunshan Earthquake of 14 November 2001
Page 2 * (Photos 8-14)

Photo 8. N60°E-trending sawlike tensile rupture at the easternmost end 70 km east of Kunlunshan Pass, showing disappearance eastward (photo toward the northeast).

Photo 9. East of Buka Daban Fen, the main surface rupture zone bifurcates westward. The left-lateral one still strikes N85°W and stops at the easternmost lobe east of Buka Daban Feng. The other one is tensile and strikes 215º with a normal component, showing it is northwest down and southeast up (photo toward the west).

Photo 10. A tensile surface rupture 2 km east of Buka Daban Feng trending 215º and showing only 1.2 m normal throw and no strike-slip component (photo toward the south).

Photo 11. A N85ºW-trending pure shear fracture or strike-slip fault with a surface width of 12.5 m offset a south-flowing gully 6 m in a left-lateral sense (photo toward the north).

Photo 12. The N73ºE-trending fractures are right-stepping where mole tracks are (photo toward the northwest).

Photo 13. The surface ruptures near the macroscopic epicenter, about 83 km west of Kunlunshan Pass, consist of four strands about 74 m wide with a total left-lateral displacement equal to or larger than 5.6 m (photo toward the east).

Photo 14. The southernmost strand of surface ruptures in Photo 13, about 11.3 m wide, trends N80ºE and offset by 1.75 m a car track left before the earthquake (photo toward the south).

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