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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 ...
This process is still at work today as the African plate converges with the Eurasian plate and the Anatolian sub-plate escapes towards the west and southwest along strike-slip faults. These are the North Anatolian Fault Zone, which forms the present day plate boundary of Eurasia near the Black Sea coast and, the East Anatolian Fault Zone, which ...
The northern edge is a transform boundary with the Eurasian plate, forming the North Anatolian Fault zone (NAFZ). Eurasian and Anatolian plates. Research indicates that the Anatolian plate is rotating counterclockwise as it is being pushed west by the Arabian plate, impeded from any northerly movement by the Eurasian plate. [8]
Map of the Anatolian Plate, featuring the North Anatolian Fault.. Most of Turkey lies on the Anatolian Plate.Deformation from is accommodated through three main faults: the eastern portion of the Hellenic Trench accommodates convergence between the Aegean Sea plate and the Anatolian Plate in the south, the North Anatolian Fault in the north, along which this earthquake occurred, accommodates ...
She continued: “The recent earthquakes in East Anatolia have occurred on the East Anatolian Fault and the nearby faults where three tectonic plates meet, what is called a triple junction: the ...
The second M>7 earthquake initiated on a separate fault known as the Çardak–Sürgü Fault Zone, [23] part of the northern strand of the East Anatolian Fault. [ 18 ] [ 67 ] [ 68 ] The rupture propagated bilaterally along the Çardak segment, continuing eastwards onto the Sürgü segment before continuing eastwards to Malatya along the ...
Tectonic map of the Anatolian Plate showing the main fault zones. The Yenice–Gönen Fault is the southernmost splay at the western end of the North Anatolian Fault. The 1953 Yenice–Gönen earthquake occurred at 21:06 local time (19:06 UTC on 18 March in the province of Çanakkale and Balıkesir in the Marmara Region at western Turkey.
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 ...