Spatiotemporal earthquake clusters along the North Anatolian fault zone offshore İstanbul

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1759-1768

  Bulut, Fatih ^a   Ellsworth, William L ^c   Bohnhoff, Marco ^a   Aktar, Mustafa ^b   Dresen, Georg ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS CORRELATIONS; DOUBLE DIFFERENCES; FAULT KINEMATICS; HIGH-PRECISION; MAINSHOCK; MARMARA SEA; MICRO-EARTHQUAKES; MICROSEISMICITY; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT ZONE; NORTHWEST TURKEY; PROGRESSIVE FAILURE; REGION OF INTEREST; RELATIVE LOCATION; RUPTURE ZONE; SEISMIC SEQUENCE; SEISMOTECTONICS; SOURCE SIZES; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE FORMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; FAULT ZONE; KOCAELI EARTHQUAKE 1999; MICROEARTHQUAKE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TECTONIC SETTING;

ANATOLIA; SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

EID: 79961157143     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100215     Document Type: Article

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