Salar Grande (n=26)

Site (coordinates) Fault Striae Sense

Salar Grande Fault

Site a
20º52’22’’S-70º04’48’’W MF 320 78 140 00 RL
20º52’22’’S-70º04’48’’W MF 140 75 311 29 RL
20º52’22’’S-70º04’48’’W MF 130 75 305 19 RL
20º52’22’’S-70º04’48’’W MF 306 65 126 00 RL
Linked Bingham Statistic

Chomache Fault
Site b
21º03’51’’-70º07’07’’ SF 138 80 141 15 RL
21º03’51’’-70º07’07’’ SF 153 72 153 00 RL
21º03’51’’-70º07’07’’ SF 129 75 305 15 RL
21º03’51’’-70º07’07’’ SF 123 65 127 09 RL
21º03’51’’-70º07’07’’ SF 150 75 320 34 RL
Site c MF 120 75 125 19 RL
Linked Bingham Statistic

Linked Bingham statistic

for Salar Grande and
Chomache Fault

Punta de Lobos Fault

Site d
21º03’51’’-70º07’42’’ SF 332 40 037 37 NL
21º03’51’’-70º07’42’’ SF 344 55 074 55 NL
21º03’51’’-70º07’42’’ SF 005 45 088 45 NL
21º03’51’’-70º07’42’’ SF 004 25 094 25 NL
21º03’51’’-70º07’42’’ SF 355 40 085 40 NL
21º03’51’’-70º07’42’’ SF 000 75 056 72 NL
21º03’51’’-70º07’42’’ SF 356 30 086 30 NR
21º03’51’’-70º07’42’’ SF 000 50 090 50 NL
21º03’51’’-70º07’42’’ SF 348 75 032 69 NL
21º03’51’’-70º07’42’’ SF 352 40 082 40 NR
21º03’51’’-70º07’42’’ SF 345 55 058 54 NL
21º03’51’’-70º07’42’’ SF 352 32 082 32 NR
21º03’51’’-70º07’42’’ SF 357 60 123 55 NR
Site e
21º03’51’’-70º07’42’’ MF 342 82 020 77 NL
Linked Bingham statistic
for Punta de Lobos Fault

Others faults
Site f
21º04’22’’-70º06’18’’ SF 020 75 071 71 NL
21º04’22’’-70º06’18’’ SF 015 86 018 38 NL

Linked Bingham statistic

for Punta de Lobos and
others faults

General Linked Bingham

statistic for Salar Grande
area
 Mejillones Peninsula (n=22)

Site (coordinates) Category Fault Striae Sense

Caleta Herradura Fault

Site s MF 010 65 073 62 NL
23º12’34’’-70º34’28’’

Faults in the Herradura

Graben
Site s1 SF 194 82 353 69 NR
23º12’30’’-70º34’21’’ n=22
23º12’30’’-70º34’21’’ n=37 SF 034 54 084 47 NL
Linked Bingham Statistic

Site s2 SF 157 78 322 50 NR

23º12’24’’-70º34’12’’ n=23
23º12’24’’-70º34’12’’ n=24 SF 006 64 032 42 NL
Linked Bingham Statistic

Site s3 SF 348 70 066 70 NL

23º12’10’’-70º33’59’’ n=14
23º12’10’’-70º33’59’’ n=6 SF 166 62 265 62 NR
Linked Bingham statistic

Linked Bingham statistic

for the faults in the Graben

Site s4
23º27’52’’S-70º31’02’’W SF 025 40 115 40 NR

Mejillones Fault
Site t MF 012 55 093 55 NL
23º06´51’’S-70º29’32’’W
Faults in the
Mejillones Graben
Site t1
23º05’50’’S-70º26’46’’W SF 358 70 041 62 NL
23º05’50’’S-70º26’46’’W SF 025 45 115 45 NR
23º05’50’’S-70º26’46’’W SF 000 70 090 70 NL
23º05’50’’S-70º26’46’’W SF 000 80 090 80 NL
23º05’50’’S-70º26’46’’W SF 010 70 062 65 NL
23º05’50’’S-70º26’46’’W SF 354 85 129 83 NR
23º05’50’’S-70º26’46’’W SF 008 80 098 80 NL
Linked Bingham Statistic

Site t2
23º05’50’’S-70º28’13’’W SF 010 80 030 63 NL
23º05’50’’S-70º28’13’’W SF 180 82 343 64 NR
23º05’50’’S-70º28’13’’W SF 000 80 090 80 NL
23º05’50’’S-70º28’13’’W SF 180 74 270 74 NR
23º05’50’’S-70º28’13’’W SF 180 70 270 70 NR
23º05’50’’S-70º28’13’’W SF 180 90 270 90 NR
Linked Bingham Statistic
Linked Bingham statistic
for Mejillones Peninsula
Linked Bingham statistic
for Mejillones Peninsula
and Salar del Carmen
 Salar del Carmen (n=17)

Site (coordinates) Category Fault Striae Sense

Salar del Carmen Fault

Northern Segment
Site u1
23º35’56”S-70º19’34”W MF 006 80 096 80 NR
23º35’56”S-70º19’34”W MF 002 75 073 74 NL
23º35’56”S-70º19’34”W MF 020 80 083 79 NL
23º35’56”S-70º19’34”W MF 337 88 150 75 NR
Linked Bingham statistic

Southern segment
Site u2
23º40’41”S-70º24’05”W SF 185 77 296 76 NR
23º40’41”S-70º24’05”W SF 175 75 299 72 NR
Site u3
23º48’43”S-70º19’42”W MF 005 77 074 76 NL
23º48’43”S-70º19’42”W MF 355 75 051 72 NL
23º49’27”S-70º19’37”W MF 345 90 165 75 NL
23º49’27”S-70º19’37”WS SF 160 85 219 84 NL
23º49’27”S-70º19’37”W SF 170 85 260 85 NR
23º49’27”S-70º19’37”W MF 170 85 194 78 NL
Linked Bingham statistic

Sierra del Ancla F.

Site y
23º40’45”S-70º19’06”W MF 010 65 073 62 NL
23º40’45”S-70º19’06”W MF 005 72 049 65 NL
23º40’45”S-70º19’06”W MF 012 88 158 86 NR
23º40’45”S-70º19’06”W MF 020 75 066 70 NL
23º40’45”S-70º19’06”W MF 020 75 082 73 NL
Linked Bingham statistic

General Linked Bingham

Statistic for the Salar del
Carmen area

Table 2. Kinematic data from fault populations of the three selected areas of northern Chile. For

fault attitude was used the right hand rule and for striae, T axis and P axis plunge direction and

plunge. MF= main fault; SF= secondary fault.