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This has caused the plateau to escape eastward to form a large-scale east\u2013west strike-slip fault and a north\u2013south extensional tectonic system. The Karakorum\u2013Jiali fault, a boundary fault between the Qiangtang and Lhasa terranes, plays an important role in the regional tectonic evolution of the Qinghai\u2013Tibet Plateau. The Gyaring Co fault, in the middle of the Karakoram\u2013Jiali fault zone, is a prominent tectonic component. There have been cases of strong earthquakes of magnitude 7 or greater in this fault, providing a strong earthquake occurrence background. However, current seismic activity is weak. Regional geodetic observation stations are sparsely distributed; thus, the slip rate of the Gyaring Co fault remains unknown. Based on interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technology, we acquired current high-spatial resolution crustal deformation characteristics of the Gyaring Co fault zone. The InSAR-derived deformation features were highly consistent with Global Positioning System observational results, and the accuracy of the InSAR deformation fields was within 2 mm\/y. According to InSAR results, the Gyaring Co fault controlled the regional crustal deformation pattern, and the difference in far-field deformation on both sides of the fault was 3\u20135 mm\/y (parallel to the fault). The inversion results of the back-slip dislocation model indicated that the slip rate of the Gyaring Co fault was 3\u20136 mm\/y, and the locking depth was ~20 km. A number of v-shaped conjugate strike-slip faults, formed along the Bangong\u2013Nujiang suture zone in the central and southern parts of the -Tibet Plateau, played an important role in regional tectonic evolution. V-shaped conjugate shear fault systems include the Gyaring Co and Doma\u2013Nima faults, and the future seismic risk cannot be ignored.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11091118","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,13]],"date-time":"2019-05-13T03:57:07Z","timestamp":1557719827000},"page":"1118","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Present-Day Deformation of the Gyaring Co Fault Zone, Central Qinghai\u2013Tibet Plateau, Determined Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Yong","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"China Earthquake Administration, Beijing 100036, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4859-4365","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chuanjin","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Second Monitoring and Application Center, China Earthquake Administration, Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wenting","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Second Monitoring and Application Center, China Earthquake Administration, Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fengyun","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Second Monitoring and Application Center, China Earthquake Administration, Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"13803","DOI":"10.1029\/JB091iB14p13803","article-title":"Quaternary extension in southern Tibet: Field observations and tectonic implications","volume":"91","author":"Armijo","year":"1986","journal-title":"J. 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