Convergence in continental settings is often accommodated by a combination of strike-slip and thrust faults. The optimal orientations and geometry for both sets of faults implies that shortening accommodation is partitioned at various levels, with varying rates, and at various times among the various faults. How deformation is partitioned at the crustal and lithospheric scale, in time and with or without inherited structures, has major implications for understanding how continents deform and on the occurrence of complex earthquakes that combine strike-slip on steep dipping faults with slip on shallow dipping thrusts. Past and recent earthquakes show how earthquake ruptures can jump from one system to the other, combine in complex thrust/strike-slip ruptures, such as, the Kaikoura Mw7.8 2016, Haiti Mw7.2 2021, Gulang M8 1927, ChangMa Mw7.6 1932 events, to cite a few. In this session we would like to invite studies that explore the geometry, kinematics, structural and earthquake interactions of complex (more often convergent) continental fault systems, based on field studies and numerical/analogue modeling. Field evidence may include co-seismic rupture studies, paleoseismology, geodesy, and seismicity. Our aim is to expand our knowledge of evolving complex fault systems in actively deforming regions to better assess earthquake hazard of interacting faults.