The North Anatolian fault: A new look

AMC Şengör, O Tüysüz, C Imren… - Annu. Rev. Earth …, 2005‏ - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Dedicated to the memory of three pioneers, İhsan Ketin, Sırrı Erinç and Melih
Tokay, and a recent student, Aykut Barka, who burnt himself out in pursuit of the mysteries of …

Historical and pre-historical tsunamis in the Mediterranean and its connected seas: Geological signatures, generation mechanisms and coastal impacts

GA Papadopoulos, E Gràcia, R Urgeles, V Sallares… - Marine Geology, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The origin of tsunamis in the Mediterranean region and its connected seas, including the
Marmara Sea, the Black Sea and the SW Iberian Margin in the NE Atlantic Ocean, is …

Submarine fault scarps in the Sea of Marmara pull‐apart (North Anatolian Fault): Implications for seismic hazard in Istanbul

R Armijo, N Pondard, B Meyer… - Geochemistry …, 2005‏ - Wiley Online Library
Earthquake scarps associated with recent historical events have been found on the floor of
the Sea of Marmara, along the North Anatolian Fault (NAF). The MARMARASCARPS cruise …

[HTML][HTML] Maximum earthquake magnitudes along different sections of the North Anatolian fault zone

M Bohnhoff, P Martínez-Garzón, F Bulut, E Stierle… - Tectonophysics, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Constraining the maximum likely magnitude of future earthquakes on continental transform
faults has fundamental consequences for the expected seismic hazard. Since the recurrence …

Revision of the tsunami catalogue affecting Turkish coasts and surrounding regions

Y Altinok, B Alpar, N Özer… - Natural Hazards and Earth …, 2011‏ - nhess.copernicus.org
The coasts of Turkey have been hit by tsunamis in the past. The first national earthquake-
tsunami catalogues were compiled in the early 1980s while the most up-to-date tsunami …

Tsunami hazard in the Marmara Sea (Turkey): a numerical approach to discuss active faulting and impact on the Istanbul coastal areas

H Hébert, F Schindele, Y Altinok, B Alpar, C Gazioglu - Marine Geology, 2005‏ - Elsevier
The westward propagation of the seismic ruptures along the North Anatolian Fault (NAF)
during the 20th century has increased the probability that the next rupture will be located …

Palaeoseismology of the North Anatolian Fault near the Marmara Sea: implications for fault segmentation and seismic hazard

T Rockwell, D Ragona, G Seitz, R Langridge… - 2009‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We conducted palaeoseismic studies along the North Anatolian fault both east and west of
the Marmara Sea to evaluate its recent surface rupture history in relation to the well …

Paleoseismology of the North Anatolian Fault at Güzelköy (Ganos segment, Turkey): Size and recurrence time of earthquake ruptures west of the Sea of Marmara

M Meghraoui, ME Aksoy, HS Akyüz… - Geochemistry …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
The Ganos fault is the westernmost segment of the North Anatolian Fault that experienced
the Mw= 7.4 earthquake of 9 August 1912. The earthquake revealed 45‐km‐long of surface …

Rupture characteristics of the AD 1912 Mürefte (Ganos) earthquake segment of the North Anatolian fault (western Turkey)

ME Aksoy, M Meghraoui, M Vallée, Z Çakır - Geology, 2010‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Ganos fault is the westernmost segment of the North Anatolian fault that generated the 9
August 1912 Mürefte (Ganos) earthquake in western Turkey (Mw= 7.4). We study the 1912 …

Magnitudes of future large earthquakes near Istanbul quantified from 1500 years of historical earthquakes, present-day microseismicity and GPS slip rates

F Bulut, B Aktuğ, C Yaltırak, A Doğru, H Özener - Tectonophysics, 2019‏ - Elsevier
In the past 1500 years, seven sequences of significant earthquakes have occurred on a 160-
km-long segment of the North Anatolian Fault zone (NAFZ) centered on Istanbul. The most …