Seismicity and source parameters for small-scale earthquakes along the splays of the North Anatolian Fault (NAF) in the Marmara Sea

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 385-404

  Örgülü, Gonca ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Earthquake dynamics; Earthquake source observations; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL BASIN; COMPRESSIONAL; EARTHQUAKE DYNAMICS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE OBSERVATIONS; FAULT MODEL; FLOWER STRUCTURES; FOCAL MECHANISM; LOCAL SCALE; MARMARA SEA; MICROSEISMICITY; NORMAL FAULTS; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS; SLIP ACTIVITY; SLIP REGIME; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRESS AXES; STRESS TENSORS; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPRESSION; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS;

EARTHQUAKES; EXPERIMENTS; FOCUSING; LANDFORMS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TECTONICS;

DYNAMICS;

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT; FOCAL MECHANISM; PULL APART BASIN; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING; TRANSPRESSION;

ANATOLIA; ARMUTLU PENINSULA; CINARCIK BASIN; SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

EID: 78650142203     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04844.x     Document Type: Article

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