Faults and Earthquakes - Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design - page 196

The Ural Mountains (Fig. 6.16a) are the result of the continent-to-continent
collision (in a pre-Pangaea period) between the East European Plate and the
Siberian Plate, producing an orogenetic belt and faults (Fig. 6.16b) (IGCP, 2006).
This collision is similar to the India-Asia and Italia-Europe collisions, forming
Himalayan and Alps Mountains, respectively. Generally, the magnitude of the
produced earthquakes is not very large.
China territory is divided, from the seismic point of view, in two different parts
(Fig. 6.17). The Western part is directly influenced by the collision of the Indian
and the Eurasian plates which produced the seismogenic Tibetan plateau (see Fig.
6.13).
(a)
(b)
Figure 6.16 Ural Mountains: (a) Location and existing faults; (b) History of
tectonic evolution during the birth of the super-continent Panagaea (modified after
IGCP, 2006)