Abstract:The Ninghe-Changli fault, with a length of about 170 km, is the demarcation between the Yanshan uplift, the Shanhaiguan uplift, and the Huanghua depression. This paper reprocessed and analyzed the data of four shallow seismic survey lines broken in the past. Shallow tectonic and activity characteristics of the Ninghe-Changli fault were then obtained. To obtain a high-quality seismic exploration time profile, the Vista seismic processing software system was applied, and the true amplitude recovery of the data and surface consistency amplitude compensation method were used. To make clear the activity age of the fault, through the intermediate data during the process, a seismic survey depth profile was obtained. The data of the depth profile were then compared with the stratigraphic sequence data near the survey line to obtain the buried depth of the upper breakpoint and the latest age of fault activity. The shallow seismic exploration profile revealed that the shallow part of the Ninghe-Changli fault consists of a main fault and a secondary fault; the shallow depth of the breakpoint on the Ninghe-Changli fault is 40~100 m. Fault activities showed a segmental character:the activity age of the northern part of the fault is early late Pleistocene, and that of the southern part is middle late Pleistocene. The fracture with the NE-trending is a positive fault, and the fracture with the NW-trending is a strike-slip fault.