There is no doubt that earthquakes can occur anywhere along any of the numerous faults of China. To provide predictions too far into the future would be totally impractical.

These NNE and ne faults become a long transform fault system and formed a boundary between the eastern margin of China Continental Plate and Philippine Sea Plate.

Using active fault movement data, we calculated the average horizontal strain rate field of China Continent and vicinity since late Pleistocene with Bessel bicubic spline model.