The crustal shortening /thickening within high Tibet and its tectonic ...

Discussion
• Have these thrusting structures be active since the collision or be
reactivated during late Quaternary (100 kyr) , (10 kyr) Holocene ,
even recent several years
• The thrusting events may occur on the blind reverse faults, producing
no rupture on surface instead of folding growth smeared by
unroofing erosion.
• Thrusting earthquake overcome harder friction on the larger interface
than striking-slip events, thus requires long repeat time and
corresponding large earthquake
• Localized elastic strain is absorbed by aseismic slip-event
Tapponnier et al., Science ,294, 1671, 2001