The Boconó Fault is a complex of geological faults located in the Eastern Ranges of northeastern

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and the Mérida Andes of northwestern

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. The fault has a NE-SW orientation; it is a

strike-slip fault In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements. Large faults within Earth's crust result from the action of plate tectonic ...

and has a dextral relative movement.Audemard et al., 2006 It extends over a length of . The fault, with a slip rate ranging from per year, has been active since the Early Holocene and earthquakes of 1610 and 1894 are associated with it.Audemard, 1997

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