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The El Pilar Fault System () is a complex of geological faults located in state of
The El Pilar Fault System () is a complex of geological faults located in state of Sucre
Sucre (; ) is the ''de jure'' capital city of Bolivia, the capital of the Chuquisaca Department and the sixth most populous city in Bolivia. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of . This relatively high ...
in northern Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...
. The fault system is of right-lateral strike-slip
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 ...
type and has an east–west orientation. Motion along the fault is largely transferred to the Warm Springs Fault in Trinidad Island.
Turkey's East Anatolian Fault
The East Anatolian Fault (EAF; ) is a ~700 km long major strike-slip fault zone running from eastern to south-central Turkey. It forms the transform type tectonic boundary between the Anatolian sub-plate and the northward-moving Arabian ...
presents the same configuration of elements of subduction and thrusting.
References
Geography of Sucre (state) Seismic faults of Venezuela Strike-slip faults Venezuelan Coastal Range {{struct-geology-stub