Palaeoearthquakes on the Kelkit Valley segment of the North Anatolian Fault, Turkey: Implications for the surface rupture of the historical 17 august 1668 Anatolian earthquake;Kuzey anadolu fayı, Kelkit Vadisi segmenti'nin eski depremleri: Tarihsel 17 aǧustos 1668 anadolu depreminin yüzey kırıǧı ile ilgili bulgular

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 411-427

  Zabci, Cengiz ^a   Akyüz, Hüsnü Serdar ^a   Karabacak, Volkan ^b   Sançar, Taylan ^a,c   Altunel, Erhan ^b   Gürsoy, Halil ^d   Tatar, Orhan ^d  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c TUNCELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

1668 Anatolian earthquake; Earthquakes; Kelkit valley; North Anatolian fault; Palaeoseismicity; Turkey

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULTING; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; PALEOSEISMICITY;

ERZINCAN [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 79959851531     PISSN: 13000985     EISSN: 1303619X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3906/yer-0910-48     Document Type: Article

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