On June 26, 2016, M 6.4 earthquake in Kyrgyzstan, near the country's southern border with Tajikistan, occurred as the result of shallow reverse faulting. Focal mechanism solutions indicate the earthquake ruptured a reverse fault dipping moderately to the northwest, or to the southeast.
The location of the earthquake is within the lithosphere of the Eurasia plate, approximately 750 km to the north of the India-Eurasia plate boundary, where the collision of these two plates at the rate of about 40 mm/yr drives regional north-south compression and the uplift of mountain ranges like the Himalaya, Pamir, and Hindu Kush. The zone of tectonic deformation associated with their convergence extends to the north of the principal boundary for more than 1000 km.
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