Karashanger Earthquake Fault Zone

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The Karashanger Earthquake Fault Zone is the remnant left by the Fuyun M8 earthquake in 1931, and it is one of the rare earthquake fault zones in the world. The earthquake spread all over the world, and the area where the earthquake was felt was 2,500 kilometers in diameter. It left a spectacular collapse area 1,500 meters long and 350 meters wide in the center of Karashengar. More than one meter of trenches, the mountain stretching over 20 kilometers fell by 10 meters as a whole, and a 63-meter landslide crack surface was formed in the subsidence area, accompanied by earthquake relic landscapes such as ridges, beaded fault depressions, bulges, and cracks. Due to the small impact of natural damage and human factors, the relic has been preserved intact so far. It is a spectacular, amazing and well-preserved earthquake relic in the history of world earthquakes. It is known as the "Earthquake Museum". equivalent value.

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The Karashanger Earthquake Fault Zone is located in the Keketuo Sea Area, Fuyun County, Altay. It is a surface variation phenomenon caused by the 1935 earthquake. Although it has been almost 90 years, there are still many strange rocks.

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There is a Karashanger earthquake fault zone in the Irtysh River Canyon of the Keketuo Sea Scenic Area. See the relevant information to introduce that the formation of the fault zone here was caused by a magnitude 8.3 earthquake in 1935. The earthquake caused the changeable geological environment.