An earthquake gap south of Istanbul

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Bohnhoff, Marco ^a,b   Bulut, Fatih ^a   Dresen, Georg ^a   Malin, Peter E ^c   Eken, Tuna ^a   Aktar, Mustafa ^d  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT ZONE; KOCAELI EARTHQUAKE 1999; MICROEARTHQUAKE; NUCLEATION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMOGRAPH;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACCIDENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

EARTHQUAKES; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ISLANDS; OCEANS AND SEAS; TURKEY;

ISTANBUL [TURKEY]; SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

EID: 84879664833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2999     Document Type: Article

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