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The North Anatolian Fault (NAF; Turkish: Kuzey Anadolu Fay Hattı) is an active right-lateral strike-slip fault in northern Anatolia, and is the transform boundary between the Eurasian plate and the Anatolian sub-plate. The fault extends westward from a junction with the East Anatolian Fault at the Karliova triple junction in eastern Turkey ...
The earthquake occurred on the North Anatolian Fault, which is a fault line around 1500 km long, right-lateral, strike-slip plate boundary fault between the Eurasian plate and the Anatolian Plate that travels across the northern section of Turkey. Large earthquakes measuring 7+ magnitudes on the North Anatolian fault in the 1900s have ruptured ...
The Sea of Marmara represents a pull-apart basin in a zone of complex strike-slip tectonic interactions associated with the North Anatolian Fault. The North Anatolian Fault is a predominantly right-lateral strike-slip fault that extends from Karliova to the Gulf of İzmit. West of the gulf, the fault splits into three branches; the northernmost ...
The earthquake was associated with faulting along the Ganos Fault, a segment of the North Anatolian Fault. Geologic trenching revealed coseismic offsets occurred along the entire 45 km (28 mi) onshort section of the Ganos Fault. These right-lateral displacements reached up to 5.5 m (18 ft).
The epicentre was about 26 km east of the Turkish city of Nurdagi at a depth of about 18 km on the East Anatolian Fault. During the 20th century, the East Anatolian Fault yielded little major ...
The North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ), where the earthquake occurred, is a 1,200 km (750 mi) right-lateral strike-slip fault zone. It extends from the Gulf of Saros to Karlıova. It formed around 13–11 million years ago in the eastern part of Anatolia and developed westwards.
However, smaller than estimates of the 1668 North Anatolia earthquake. [4] This was one of the largest in a sequence of violent shocks to affect Turkey along the North Anatolian Fault between 1939 and 1999. Surface rupturing, with a horizontal displacement of up to 3.7 meters, occurred in a 360 km long segment of the North Anatolian Fault Zone.
On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southeast Asia, triggering the worst tsunami in recorded history. According to United Nations estimates, more than 220,000 people were killed ...