North Anatolian Fault

THE NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT: A NEW LOOK - Annual Reviews

Abstract Dedicated to the memory of three pioneers, İhsan Ketin, Sırrı Erinç and Melih Tokay, and a recent student, Aykut Barka, ...

The North Anatolian transform fault: its age, offset and tectonic ...

Whether the offset of the fault changes systematically along its strike is not known. The North Anatolian transform fault seems to have originated as a ...

North Anatolian Fault - ScienceDaily

North Anatolian Fault is one of the most energetic earthquake zones in the world. Note: The above text is excerpted from the Wikipedia article North Anatolian ...

Spatiotemporal earthquake clusters along the North Anatolian fault ...

We investigate earthquakes with similar waveforms in order to characterize spatiotemporal microseismicity clusters within the North Anatolian fault zone ...

The geometry of the North Anatolian transform fault in the Sea of ...

Not all the faults shown on this map are now active, but all have been active sometime in the last 11 Ma. Most are potential earthquake generators. Fault traces ...

North Anatolian Fault - (Plate Tectonics) - Fiveable

The North Anatolian Fault is a major transform fault that runs across northern Turkey, marking the boundary between the Eurasian and Anatolian tectonic plates.

Tectonics and Structural Geology | North Anatolian Fault - EGU Blogs

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Formation of the North Anatolian Fault and interacting tectonic plates...

The North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ) is an intersection area between the Anatolian and Eurasian plates. The Arabian Plate, which squeezes the Anatolian Plate ...

CDCAT Geological Overview - Geosciences |

The Eurasian Plate is located north of the North Anatolian Fault, a large ... The sinistral East Anatolian Fault Zone is the conjugate fault to the dextral North ...

Progressive failure on the North Anatolian fault since 1939 by ...

New observations of the North Anatolian fault, as well as new methods to calculate how seismic stress transfer alters the probability of subsequent earthquakes, ...

Turkey: Seafloor study proves earthquake risk for the first time

The North Anatolian fault zone marks the boundary between the Eurasian and Anatolian plates. "Strong earthquakes occur when the fault zone ...

Slip distribution along the North Anatolian fault associated with the ...

The amount of slip is irregularly distributed along the 1939 to 1967 rupture zone. The maximum slip, 7.5 m, occurred during the 1939 earthquake in the eastern ...

Space-time migration of earthquakes along the North Anatolian fault ...

There appears to have been a two-directional migration of earthquake epicenters away from a central region located at about 39°E longitude.

The North Anatolian Fault; a new look - Earth-Prints

However, limited documented offset of structural or geomorphic markers exist along the 1500 km-long North. Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ) (Dhont et al., 1998; ...

North Anatolian Fault Field Trip Report

The North Anatolian Fault extends in an east-west direction along ~ 1500 km, showing several segments associated with historical large seismic events.

Near-surface structure of the North Anatolian Fault zone from ...

We constructed a seismic velocity model of the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey. We found that the fault is located within a region of reduced seismic velocity ...

Magnitude-5.9 quake strikes the eastern end of the North Anatolian ...

A moderate earthquake struck the Bingöl province in eastern Turkey on Sunday. The quake occurred at the intersection between two major faults in the region.

Interseismic strain build-up on the submarine North Anatolian Fault ...

Using offshore geodetic observations, we show that a segment of the North Anatolian Fault in the central Sea of Marmara is locked and ...

sediment core studies on the north anatolian fault zone in the ...

- Sediment cores BUC-10A and İZ-30 located on the North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ), 12 km south of Büyükçekmece and İzmit Gulf in the eastern part of the Sea ...

1668 North Anatolia earthquake - Wikipedia

Northern Anatolia was struck by a large earthquake on 17 August 1668 in the late morning. ... It had an estimated magnitude in the range 7.8–8.0 Ms and the ...