ASTER spectral band ratios for lithological mapping: a case study for measuring geological offset along the Erkenek Segment of the East Anatolian Fault Zone, Turkey

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelrahman Khalifa ◽  
Ziyadin Çakır ◽  
Şinasi Kaya ◽  
Safwat Gabr
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Spectral Band ◽  
Lithological Mapping ◽  
Band Ratios ◽  
East Anatolian Fault Zone ◽  
East Anatolian Fault

scholarly journals Rupture kinematics of 2020 January 24 Mw 6.7 Doğanyol-Sivrice, Turkey earthquake on the East Anatolian Fault Zone imaged by space geodesy

2020 ◽  
Vol 223 (2) ◽  
pp. 862-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Melgar ◽  
Athanassios Ganas ◽  
Tuncay Taymaz ◽  
Sotiris Valkaniotis ◽  
Brendan W Crowell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Slip Model ◽  
Slip Region ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite ◽  
Rupture Kinematics ◽  
Source Duration ◽  
East Anatolian Fault Zone ◽  
East Anatolian Fault

SUMMARY Here, we present the results of a kinematic slip model of the 2020 Mw 6.7 Doğanyol-Sivrice, Turkey Earthquake, the most important event in the last 50 yr on the East Anatolian Fault Zone. Our slip model is constrained by two Sentinel-1 interferograms and by 5 three-component high-rate GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) recordings close to the earthquake source. We find that most of the slip occurs predominantly in three regions, two of them at between 2 and 10 km depth and a deeper slip region extending down to 20 km depth. We also relocate the first two weeks of aftershocks and find a distribution of events that agrees with these slip features. The HR-GNSS recordings suggest a predominantly unilateral rupture with the effects of a directivity pulse clearly seen in the waveforms and in the measure peak ground velocities. The slip model supports rupture propagation from northeast to southwest at a relatively slow speed of 2.2 km s−1 and a total source duration of ∼20 s. In the absence of near-source seismic stations, space geodetic data provide the best constraint on the spatial distribution of slip and on its time evolution.

scholarly journals Integrating Landsat 7 and 8 data to improve basalt formation classification: A case study at Buon Ma Thuot region, Central Highland, Vietnam

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 901-917
Author(s):  
Ngo Van Liem ◽  
Dang Van Bao ◽  
Dang Kinh Bac ◽  
Nguyen Hieu ◽  
Do Trung Hieu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Spectral Band ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Central Highland ◽  
Band Ratios ◽  
Landsat 7 ◽  
Cenozoic Basalt ◽  
Geological Map ◽  
Geological Formations

Abstract Cenozoic basalt regions contain various natural resources that can be used for socio-economic development. Different quantitative and qualitative methods have been applied to understand the geological and geomorphological characteristics of basalt formations. Nowadays the integration of remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) has become a powerful method to distinguish geological formations. In this paper, authors combined satellite and fieldwork data to analyze the structure and morphology of highland geological formations in order to distinguish two main volcanic eruption episodes. Based on remote sensing analysis in this study, different spectral band ratios were generated to select the best one for basalt classification. Lastly, two spectral combinations (including band ratios 4/3, 6/2, 7/4 in Landsat 8 and 3/2, 5/1, 7/3 in Landsat 7) were chosen for the Maximum Likelihood classification. The final geological map based on the integration of Landsat 7 and 8 outcomes shows precisely the boundary of the basalt formations with the accuracy up to 93.7%. This outcome contributed significantly to the correction of geological maps. In further studies, authors suggest the integration of Landsat 7 and 8 data in geological studies and natural resource and environmental management at both local and regional scales.

New insight into the 24 January 2020, Mw 6.8 Elazığ earthquake (Turkey): An evidence for rupture-parallel pull-apart basin activation along the East Anatolian Fault Zone constrained by Geodetic and Seismological data

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. SE439
Author(s):  
T Serkan Irmak ◽  
Mustafa Toker ◽  
Evrim Yavuz ◽  
Erman Şentürk ◽  
Muhammed Ali Güvenaltın
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Surface Deformation ◽  
Waveform Inversion ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Focal Mechanisms ◽  
Deformation Pattern ◽  
Pull Apart Basin ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
East Anatolian Fault Zone ◽  
East Anatolian Fault

In this study, we investigated the main features of the causative fault of the 24 January 2020, Mw 6.8 Elazığ earthquake (Turkey) using seismological and geodetic data sets to provide new insight into the East Anatolian Fault Zone (EAFZ). We first constrained the co-seismic surface deformation and the rupture geometry of the causative fault segment using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) interferograms (Sentinel-1A/B satellites) and teleseismic waveform inversion, respectively. Also, we determined the centroid moment tensor (CMT) solutions of focal mechanisms of the 27 aftershocks using the regional waveform inversion method. Finally, we evaluated the co-seismic slip distribution and the CMT solutions of the causative fault as well as of adjacent segments using the 27 focal solutions of the aftershocks, superimposed on the surface deformation pattern. The CMT solution of the 24 January 2020Elazığ earthquake reveals a pure strike-slip focal mechanism, consistent with the structural pattern and left-lateral motion of the EAFZ. The rupture process of the Elazığ event indicated that the rupture is started at 12 km around the hypocenter, and then propagated bilaterally along the NE-SW but mainly toward the southwest. The rupture slip has initially propagated toward the southwest (first 10 s) and northeast (4 s), and again toward the southwest (9 s). Maximum displacement is calculated as 1.3 m about 20 km southwest of the hypocenter at 6 km depth (centroid depth). The rupture stopped to down-dip around 20 km depth toward the southwest. The distribution of the slip vectors indicates that the rupture continued mostly through a normal oblique movement. Most of the moment release was released SW of the hypocenter and the rupture reached up to around 50 km. The focal mechanisms of analyzed 27 aftershocks show strike-slip, but mostly normal and normal oblique-slip faulting with an orientation of the tensional axes (NNE-SSW), indicating a normal oblique-slip, “transtensional” stress regime, parallel-subparallel to the strike of the EAFZ, consistent with SW-rupture directivity and co- seismic deformation pattern. Finally, based on the co-seismic surface deformation compatible with the distributional pattern of normal focal solutions, normal and normal oblique-slip focals of the aftershocks evidence the rupture-parallel pull-apart basin activation as a segment boundary of the left-lateral strike-slip movement of the EAFZ.

scholarly journals The East Anatolian Fault Zone: Seismotectonic setting and spatiotemporal characteristics of seismicity based on precise earthquake locations

2012 ◽  
Vol 117 (B7) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatih Bulut ◽  
Marco Bohnhoff ◽  
Tuna Eken ◽  
Christoph Janssen ◽  
Tuğbay Kılıç ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Spatiotemporal Characteristics ◽  
Earthquake Locations ◽  
East Anatolian Fault Zone ◽  
East Anatolian Fault
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