Geoenvironmental evaluation for planning: an example from Gumushane City, close to the North Anatolia Fault Zone, NE Turkey

2012 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 679-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sule Tudes ◽  
Sener Ceryan ◽  
Fikri Bulut
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
The North

scholarly journals Morphotectonic Analysis along the Northern Margin of Samos Island, Related to the Seismic Activity of October 2020, Aegean Sea, Greece

Geosciences ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Paraskevi Nomikou ◽  
Dimitris Evangelidis ◽  
Dimitrios Papanikolaou ◽  
Danai Lampridou ◽  
Dimitris Litsas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Seismic Activity ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Active Tectonics ◽  
Normal Fault ◽  
Aegean Sea ◽  
Northern Margin ◽  
The North ◽  
Eastern Aegean ◽  
Half Graben

On 30 October 2020, a strong earthquake of magnitude 7.0 occurred north of Samos Island at the Eastern Aegean Sea, whose earthquake mechanism corresponds to an E-W normal fault dipping to the north. During the aftershock period in December 2020, a hydrographic survey off the northern coastal margin of Samos Island was conducted onboard R/V NAFTILOS. The result was a detailed bathymetric map with 15 m grid interval and 50 m isobaths and a morphological slope map. The morphotectonic analysis showed the E-W fault zone running along the coastal zone with 30–50° of slope, forming a half-graben structure. Numerous landslides and canyons trending N-S, transversal to the main direction of the Samos coastline, are observed between 600 and 100 m water depth. The ENE-WSW oriented western Samos coastline forms the SE margin of the neighboring deeper Ikaria Basin. A hummocky relief was detected at the eastern margin of Samos Basin probably representing volcanic rocks. The active tectonics characterized by N-S extension is very different from the Neogene tectonics of Samos Island characterized by NE-SW compression. The mainshock and most of the aftershocks of the October 2020 seismic activity occur on the prolongation of the north dipping E-W fault zone at about 12 km depth.

scholarly journals The implications of fault zone transformation on aseismic creep: Example of the North Anatolian Fault, Turkey

2017 ◽  
Vol 122 (6) ◽  
pp. 4208-4236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maor Kaduri ◽  
Jean-Pierre Gratier ◽  
François Renard ◽  
Ziyadin Çakir ◽  
Cécile Lasserre
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
North Anatolian Fault ◽  
The North

Queen Charlotte fault zone: microearthquakes from a temporary array of land stations and ocean bottom seismographs

1981 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 776-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Hyndman ◽  
R. M. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Ocean Bottom ◽  
Small Component ◽  
Queen Charlotte Islands ◽  
The North ◽  
Vertical Fault ◽  
Linear Sections ◽  
Ocean Bottom Seismographs ◽  
Steep Slopes

A temporary array of land and ocean bottom seismograph stations was used to accurately locate microearthquakes on the Queen Charlotte fault zone, which occurs along the continental margin of western Canada. The continental slope has two steep linear sections separated by a 25 km wide irregular terrace at a depth of 2 km. Eleven events were located with magnitudes from 0.5 to 2.0, 10 of them beneath the landward one of the two steep slopes, some 5 km off the coast of the southern Queen Charlotte Islands. No events were located beneath the seaward and deeper steep slope. The depths of seven of these events were constrained by the data to between 9 and 21 km with most near 20 km. The earthquake and other geophysical data are consistent with a near vertical fault zone having mainly strike-slip motion. A model including a small component of underthrusting in addition to strike-slip faulting is suggested to account for the some 15° difference between the relative motion of the North America and Pacific plates from plate tectonic models and the strike of the margin. One event was located about 50 km inland of the main active zone and probably occurred on the Sandspit fault. The rate of seismicity on the Queen Charlotte fault zone during the period of the survey was similar to that predicted by the recurrence relation for the region from the long-term earthquake record.

Displacement and stress field along part of the Cobequid Fault, Nova Scotia

1969 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 1095-1104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard H. Eisbacher
Keyword(s):  
Stress Field ◽  
Fault Zone ◽  
Maximum Compressive Stress ◽  
Clastic Rocks ◽  
The North ◽  
Total Displacement ◽  
Displacement Vectors ◽  
Lateral Displacements ◽  
Fault Trace ◽  
Southern Flank

The east-trending Cobequid Fault separates pre-Carboniferous rocks of the Cobequid Mountains to the north from Carboniferous clastic rocks along the southern flank of the mountains. A detailed study of the fault zone revealed tie predominance of right-lateral displacements. The orientation of the stress field that existed during deformation along the fault trace was determined by the study of systematic fractures in pebbles within Carboniferous conglomerate. Maximum compressive stress was aligned in a NW–SE direction, being compatible with the orientation of the displacement vectors in the fault zone. Transcurrent movement along the Cobequid Fault occurred in late Pennsylvanian time and involved both Carboniferous and pre-Carboniferous rocks; total displacement is unknown.

Observations of the Coyote Lake, California earthquake sequence of August 6, 1979

1980 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 559-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Uhrhammer
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Fault Zone ◽  
Strong Earthquake ◽  
Main Shock ◽  
B Value ◽  
Aftershock Sequence ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Temporal And Spatial Characteristics ◽  
Largest Aftershock

abstract At 1705 UTC on August 6, 1979, a strong earthquake (ML = 5.9) occurred along the Calaveras fault zone south of Coyote Lake about 110 km southeast of San Francisco. This strong earthquake had an aftershock sequence of 31 events (2.4 ≦ ML ≦ 4.4) during August 1979. No foreshocks (ML ≧ 1.5) were observed in the 3 months prior to the main shock. The local magnitude (ML = 5.9) and the seismic moment (Mo = 6 × 1024 dyne-cm from the SH pulse) for the main shock were determined from the 100 × torsion and 3-component ultra-long period seismographs located at Berkeley. Local magnitudes are determined for the aftershocks from the maximum trace amplitudes on the Wood-Anderson torsion seismograms recorded at Berkeley (Δ ≊ 110 km). Temporal and spatial characteristics of the aftershock sequence are presented and discussed. Some key observations are: (1) the first six aftershocks (ML ≧ 2.4) proceed along the fault zone progressively to the south of the main shock; (2) all of the aftershocks (ML ≧ 2.4) to the south of the largest aftershock (ML = 4.4) have a different focal mechanism than the aftershocks to the north; (3) no aftershocks (ML ≧ 2.4) were observed significantly to the north of the main shock for the first 5 days of the sequence; and (4) the b-value (0.70 ± 0.17) for the aftershock sequence is not significantly different from the average b-value (0.88 ± 0.08) calculated for the Calaveras fault zone from 16 yr of data.

Crustal seismic attenuation parameters in the western region of the North Anatolian Fault Zone

2020 ◽  
Vol 134 ◽  
pp. 101694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gizem Izgi ◽  
Tuna Eken ◽  
Peter Gaebler ◽  
Tom Eulenfeld ◽  
Tuncay Taymaz
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Seismic Attenuation ◽  
North Anatolian Fault ◽  
Western Region ◽  
North Anatolian Fault Zone ◽  
The North ◽  
The Western Region
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