Multi-disciplinary earthquake researches in Western Turkey: Hints to select sites to study geochemical transients associated to seismicity

Acta Geophysica

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 767-813

  Inan, Sedat ^a   Ertekin, Kadriye ^b   Seyis, Cemil ^a   Şimşek, Şakir ^c   Kulak, Furkan ^a   Dikbaş, Aynur ^a   Tan, Onur ^a   Ergintav, Semih ^a   Çakmak, Rahşan ^a   Yörük, Ahmet ^a   Çergel, Muhiddin ^a   Yakan, Hakan ^a   Karakuş, Hüseyin ^c   Saatçilar, Ruhi ^a,d   Akçiǧ, Zafer ^b   Iravul, Yildiz ^e   Tüzel, Bekir ^e  

^a MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Turkey)

^b DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d SAKARYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e Department of Earthquake Research ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aegean Extensional Province; Geochemical monitoring sensitive sites; Seismically activated geochemical transients; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; AEGEAN EXTENSIONAL PROVINCE; AS-SOILS; DEFORMATION ZONE; DIP-SLIP FAULTS; EARTHQUAKE RESEARCH; GEOCHEMICAL ANOMALY; GEOCHEMICAL MONITORING; HOT SPRING WATER; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH; RADON ANOMALIES; RELEASE PATTERN; SEISMIC EVENT; SEISMIC MONITORING; SOIL GAS RADON; STRESS/STRAIN; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STUDY AREAS; WATER DIFFUSION;

GROUNDWATER; HOT SPRINGS; RADON; SOILS; TRANSIENTS;

EARTHQUAKES;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FORESHOCK; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; RADON; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMICITY; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THERMAL SPRING;

TURKEY;

EID: 77954215469     PISSN: 18956572     EISSN: 18957455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11600-010-0016-7     Document Type: Article

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