The earthquake occured on the NNW trending tectonic belt which lie on the east of the Pamirs that new construct activity is intensive, most of faults in the tectonic belt is dextral strike-slip Holocene deep faults.

• 地震发生在新构造活动强烈的帕米尔高原东部北北西构造带上,该构造带的断裂性质多为右旋走滑的全新世活动深断裂。