Slip history of the 1944 Bolu-Gerede earthquake rupture along the North Anatolian fault system: Implications for recurrence behavior of multisegment earthquakes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Kondo, Hisao ^a   Özaksoy, Volkan ^b,c   Yildirim, Cengiz ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF MINERAL RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION   (Turkey)

^c AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULTING; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; PALEOSEISMICITY; SLIP; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

EID: 79959836682     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006413     Document Type: Article

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