Baiyinchagan depression is part of downwarping faulted rift basin developed on XingmengHercynian multicycle and collision fold basement in late Mesozoic.
The shift, collision and within plate intraformational gliding of plates may result in the occurrence of earthquakes.Two seismic zones may be recognized in China: eastern and western seismic zones.
A number of flights were also affected.Visibility of just a few hundred metres led to a minor collision between a jetfoil and a mainland fishing boat off Lantau Island .