Kabaw Fault is a fault in Myanmar. It was among those that ruptured during the

1762 Arakan earthquake The 1762 Arakan earthquake occurred at about 17:00 local time on 2 April, with an epicentre somewhere on the coast from Chittagong (modern Bangladesh) to Arakan in modern Burma. It had an estimated magnitude of as high as 8.8 on the moment magnitu ...

Location

Kabaw Fault lies roughly parallel with the Indo-Burmese border near

Mizoram Mizoram () is a state in Northeast India, with Aizawl as its seat of government and capital city. The name of the state is derived from "Mizo people, Mizo", the endonym, self-described name of the native inhabitants, and "Ram", which in the Mizo ...

at the foothills of the mountains separating the plains of central Myanmar with the

Arakan Mountains The Arakan Mountains ( my, ရခိုင်ရိုးမ), also known as the Rakhine Yoma, are a mountain range in western Myanmar, between the coast of Rakhine State and the Central Myanmar Basin, in which flows the Irrawaddy River. It is th ...

, extending due south roughly 300 km.

References

Geology of Myanmar Seismic faults {{tectonics-stub