Interaction between historical earthquakes and the 2021 Mw7.4 Maduo event and their impacts on the seismic gap areas along the East Kunlun fault

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Table 1 Information of the 14 historical earthquakes

No.	Date D./M./Y	Magnitude	Epicenter		Strike/°	Dip/°	Rake/°	Length/Km	Width/Km	Slip/m	References
No.	Date D./M./Y	Magnitude	Latitude/°	Longitude/°	Strike/°	Dip/°	Rake/°	Length/Km	Width/Km	Slip/m	References
1	01/08/1879	Ms8.0	33.2	104.7	70	70	– 34	190	25	7.2	Wells and Coppersmith 1994; Hou et al, 2005; Shan et al, 2015
2	16/12/1920	Ms8.5	36.62	105.4	115	90	0	220	25	8.0	Xiao and he, 2015
3	25/08/1933	Ms7.8	31.9	103.4	165	60	28	100	23	2.69	Wang and Shen, 2011
4	07/01/1937	Ms7.6	35.4	97.69	110	70	15	138	20	3.31	Peter Molnar and Deng, 1984 Shen et al, 2003
5	17/03/1947	Ms7.6	33.3	99.5	135	90	0	139	20	3.31	Shen et al, 2003; Liu et al. 2021; Wan et al., 2007
6	19/01/1963	Ms7.1	35.5	96.44	277	80	– 10	68	14	1.17	Wells and Coppersmith 1994; Wan et al, 2007
7	16/08/1976	Ms7.2	32.72	104.08	165	63	40	30	12	1.09	Jones et al., 1984
8	23/08/1976	Ms7.2	32.48	104.1	165	65	40	30	12	1.09	Jones et al., 1984
9	26/04/1990	Ms7.0	36.06	100.33	346	78	128	59	13	0.95	Wan et al, 2007
10	12/09/2000	Ms6.6	35.5	99.5	343	80	– 170	33	10	0.42	Wells and Coppersmith 1994;
11	14/11/2001	Ms8.1	35.92	90.54	99	90	5	–	–	–	Lasserre et al, 2005
12	12/05/2008	Ms8.1	31.0	103.4	229	32	118	–	–	–	Wang et al, 2011
13	10/04/2010	Ms7.1	33.2	96.9	165	60	28	–	–	–	Li et al, 2011b
14	08/08/2017	Ms7.0	33.2	103.9	151	83	0	–	–	–	Liu et al, 2019
15	21/05/2021	Ms7.4	34.59	98.25	285	85	0	–	–	–	USGS (2021)