3-D crustal structure along the North Anatolian Fault Zone in north-central Anatolia revealed by local earthquake tomography

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 819-849

  Yolsal Çevikbilen, Seda ^a   Biryol, C Berk ^b   Beck, Susan ^b   Zandt, George ^b   Taymaz, Tuncay ^a   Adiyaman, Hande E ^b   Özacar, A Arda ^c  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

^c MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Body waves; Continental tectonics: strike slip and transform; Crustal structure; Seismic tomography; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVES; CONTINENTAL TECTONICS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DISTRIBUTED PATTERNS; EARTHQUAKE LOCATION; FLUID CONTENT; HIGH VELOCITY; LOWER LIMITS; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT ZONE; P-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; RUPTURE PROPAGATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; STUDY AREAS; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; TRAVEL TIME;

BUILDINGS; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BODY WAVE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; LITHOLOGY; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 84857059351     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05313.x     Document Type: Article

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