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A magnitude 6.3 earthquake, the biggest instrumentally recorded earthquake in Thailand, occurred in Chiang Rai Province on 5 May 2014 and caused wide damage in the affected area. The earthquake generated numerous aftershocks that could portray the location of the fault plane beneath the ground. In this work, we conducted integrated geophysical surveys consisting of 2D seismic reflection and 2D resistivity imaging surveys to explore for active faults that could have caused this earthquake. A seismic reflection survey line with a total length of 3,750 metres and resistivity survey with a total length of 1,975 metres were conducted along the Chiang Rai earthquake’s aftershock locations. The subsurface fault geometry was imaged from this integrated geophysical survey. Numerous subsurface discontinuities detected from both seismic reflection and 2D resistivity imaging survey were interpreted as potential faults along the survey line with depths from a few meters to around 500 metres. These subsurface discontinuities correspond well with the aftershock locations which could suggest a fault rupture plane.
