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The P-axes appeared to be more variable and almost horizontal (6° 10°), parallel to the strike of the arc.

The profile of the refraction survey (black line in Fig. 4) is parallel to the strike of the trench.

The T-axis of this normal fault event was almost parallel to the strike of the NAF.

Others show structure induced anisotropy, that is, the orientation is parallel to the strike of active faults.

On the other hand, the structure-induced anisotropy shows ϕ is parallel to the strike of active faults.

On the other hand, the orientation of the faster polarized shear wave is parallel to the strike of active faults at some stations, indicating the structure induced anisotropy.

Because the trends of the GPS velocity gradients are generally parallel to the strikes of active faults in this region (red lines in Fig. 1), the block boundaries (black lines in Figs. 4 and 5) are mainly selected by determining whether the locations of GPS velocity gradients and active faults match.

South of Point A, the strike of the reconstructed leading edge is sub-parallel to the strike of the present Sunda trench, possibly indicating that this southern boundary of the subducting Indian Plate was a transform fault until 10 Ma.

We suggest that the lack of clear normal faults in the reflection image is precisely because our seismic profile is oriented almost orthogonal to the arc strike (i.e., extensional direction) and is thus sub-parallel to the strike of normal faults.

For example, normal faults that were parallel and semi-parallel to the strike of the Vergent thrust fault System (WTS) developed during the 4 July, 2001, earthquake in the Altiplano region of north Chili in the overlapping continental plate (Somoza, 1998; Farias et al., 2005).

In addition, one of the nodal planes of the focal mechanisms is almost parallel to the strike direction of the Hinagu fault.