Historical Account Of Monitoring The North Anatolian Fault At The Ismetpasa Segment And The Latest Findings

North Anatolian Fault (NAF) is the largest and longest earthquake producing fault of Turkey which extends from its Iranian border in the east to Marmara Sea in the west with a length of 1200km. It separates the Eurasian Plate and the Anatolian Plate and has similar features to the San Andreas Fault...

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Published in:WIT Transactions on the Built Environment 2013-01, Vol.132, p.259
Main Authors: Mekik, C, Kutoglu, H, Gormus, K S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aseismic buildings
Borders
Earthquakes
Environmental monitoring
Faults
Geological faults
Global positioning systems
GPS
Highway maintenance
Historic
Historical account
Lidar
Linearity
Measurement methods
Plates (tectonics)
Segments
Seismic activity
Slip
Strikes
Surveying
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Summary:North Anatolian Fault (NAF) is the largest and longest earthquake producing fault of Turkey which extends from its Iranian border in the east to Marmara Sea in the west with a length of 1200km. It separates the Eurasian Plate and the Anatolian Plate and has similar features to the San Andreas Fault in California in USA in that both faults have a right-lateral strike slip faulting mechanism, similar lengths and linearity as far as their poles of rotation are concerned. Two of these major earthquakes occurred in the Ismetpasa segment of the fault, located 350 km east of Istanbul at the intersection of Karabuk and Cankiri provinces in north-central Anatolia, the Asia Minor, and 100km north of Ankara, the capital of Turkey. This paper documents the studies carried on NAF at Ismetpasa segment in a chronological perspective, and also gives the latest findings obtained by different research groups in the last decade.
ISSN:1746-4498
1743-3509
DOI:10.2495/ERES130211