The East Anatolian Fault Zone: Seismotectonic setting and spatiotemporal characteristics of seismicity based on precise earthquake locations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Bulut, Fatih ^a   Bohnhoff, Marco ^a   Eken, Tuna ^a   Janssen, Christoph ^a   Kl, Tubay ^b   Dresen, Georg ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; PLATE MOTION; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SHEAR ZONE; SLIP RATE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

ANATOLIA; TURKEY;

EID: 84864032516     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008966     Document Type: Article

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