Istanbul's earthquake hot spots: Geodetic constraints on strain accumulation along faults in the Marmara seismic gap

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 5783-5788

  Ergintav, S ^a   Reilinger, R E ^b   Cakmak R ^c   Floyd, M ^b   Cakir, Z ^d   Dotan U ^e   King, R W ^b   McClusky, S ^f   Ozener H ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Turkey)

^d ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING;

DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; GEODETIC CONSTRAINTS; MARMARA SEA; MOST LIKELY; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; SEA OF MARMARA; SEISMIC GAPS; STRAIN ACCUMULATIONS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT PROPAGATION; GEODESY; GPS; HOT SPOT; STRAIN ANALYSIS;

ISTANBUL [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 84906294630     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060985     Document Type: Article

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