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The most earthquake-prone part of Turkey is an arc-shaped region stretching from the general vicinity of Kocaeli to the area north of Lake Van on the border with Armenia and Georgia. Fault lines and earthquakes. Turkey's terrain is structurally complex.
The devastating 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes occurred along the active East Anatolian Fault at a strike-slip fault where the Arabian plate is sliding past the Anatolian plate horizontally. [4] [5] According to the American Museum of Natural History, the Anatolian transform fault system is "probably the most active in the world". [6]
North Anatolian Fault: Turkey: Dextral strike-slip: Active: 1939 Erzincan (M7.8), 1912 Ganos ... Normal fault: Active: 2020 Salt Lake City (M5.7) Wellington Fault >100:
The most earthquake-prone part of Turkey is an arc-shaped region stretching from the general vicinity of Kocaeli to the area north of Lake Van on the border with Armenia and Georgia. Fault lines and earthquakes. Turkey's terrain is structurally complex.
The fault extends westward from a junction with the East Anatolian Fault at the Karliova triple junction in eastern Turkey, across northern Turkey and into the Aegean Sea for a length of 1200 [1] −1500 kilometers. [2] It runs about 20 km south of Istanbul. The North Anatolian Fault is similar in many ways to the San Andreas Fault in
The first 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the border region between Turkey and Syria, an area with a population of 13.5 million. The site of the fault line before the quake, taken on 6 September 2019 ...
Map of the Dead Sea Transform showing the main fault segments and motion of the Arabian plate relative to the African plate, [1] from GPS data The Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault system, also sometimes referred to as the Dead Sea Rift, is a series of faults that run for about 1,000 km from the Marash triple junction (a junction with the East Anatolian Fault in southeastern Turkey) to the ...
To map the subduction zone, researchers at sea performed active source seismic imaging, a technique that sends sound to the ocean floor and then processes the echoes that return. The method is ...