Abstract: Since the Late Pleistocene,the movement of the northern segment of the Honghe fault zone has been different from that of the southern one.At the southern segment movement is primarily characteristic of single right-lateral shearing,whereas at the northern segment,of a compositive right-lateral shearing with faulted-depressional extension.With in the compositive zone in question appears an en-echolon fault pattern due to alternate shearing and fault-depression.From the southeast to the northwest,they are: Ding Xiling shearing zone,Dali fault-depression,Xiashankou shearing zone,Eryuan fault-depression,Cibihu Lake shearing zone and Jianchuan fault-depression.Geomorphic feature of shear zone and fault-depression is completely different,the former appearing as a narrow valley and the latter,as a basin.This paper is focused on the determination of displacement rates and recurrence intervals of earthquakes of Dixiling shear zone and Dali fault-depression having remained since the late stages of Late Pleistocene.For Dixiling shearing zone,right-lateral displacement rate is 8mm/yr,and vertical slip rate is 1.8mm/yr,with a ratio of 4:1 and for Dili fault-depression,5mm/yr and 9mm/yr,respectively,with a ratio of nearly 1:2.According to calculations of the parameters of fault displacement,we have found that recurrence intervals for magnitude 6.8 earthquake are 178±29 years.It is consistent with the recurrence interval (150±50 years)of M 6—7 earthquakes from historic seismic records in this area.It may be useful to immediate—long term earthquake prediction.