Complex multi-fault rupture and triggering during the 2023 earthquake doublet in southeastern Türkiye

C Liu, T Lay, R Wang, T Taymaz, Z Xie, X Xiong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Two major earthquakes (MW 7.8 and MW 7.7) ruptured left-lateral strike-slip faults
of the East Anatolian Fault Zone (EAFZ) on February 6, 2023, causing> 59,000 fatalities …

Active seismotectonics of the East Anatolian fault

SE Güvercin, H Karabulut, AÖ Konca… - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY The East Anatolian Fault (EAF) is a 700-km-long left-lateral transform fault
located between the Anatolian and Arabian plates. The proximity of the Euler Pole to the …

Time-dependent recurrence of strong earthquake shaking near plate boundaries: A lake sediment perspective

J Moernaut - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Accurate probabilistic seismic hazard analysis requires a good knowledge of the recurrence
parameters of the strongest earthquakes in a region. Due to the typical short temporal span …

Slip distribution of the February 6, 2023 Mw 7.8 and Mw 7.6, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey earthquake sequence in the East Anatolian fault zone

S Barbot, H Luo, T Wang, Y Hamiel, O Piatibratova… - Seismica, 2023 - par.nsf.gov
On February 6, 2023, two large earthquakes occurred near the Turkish town of
Kahramanmaraş. The moment magnitude (Mw) 7.8 mainshock ruptured a 310 km-long …

The 2023 Pazarcık (Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye) earthquake (Mw 7.7): implications for surface rupture dynamics along the East Anatolian Fault Zone

V Karabacak, Ç Özkaymak, H Sözbilir… - Journal of the …, 2023 - lyellcollection.org
Southern Türkiye faced widespread catastrophic destruction by two devastating earthquakes
on the same day. As the earthquakes occurred at 04: 17 (Mw= 7.7, Pazarcık …

[HTML][HTML] Preliminary documentation of coseismic ground failure triggered by the February 6, 2023 Türkiye earthquake sequence

T Görüm, H Tanyas, F Karabacak, A Yılmaz, S Girgin… - Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The devastating Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence occurred on February 6, 2023. Two
main events, M w 7.8 and M w 7.5 occurred 9 hours apart, affected 11 cities in Turkey, and …

Source model of the 2023 Turkey earthquake sequence imaged by Sentinel-1 and GPS measurements: Implications for heterogeneous fault behavior along the East …

S Li, X Wang, T Tao, Y Zhu, X Qu, Z Li, J Huang… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
On 6 February 2023, a devastating doublet of earthquakes with magnitudes of Mw 7.8 and
Mw 7.6 successively struck southeastern Turkey near the border of Syria. The earthquake …

Long silence on the East Anatolian Fault Zone (Southern Turkey) ends with devastating double earthquakes (6 February 2023) over a seismic gap: implications for the …

H Karabulut, SE Güvercin… - Journal of the …, 2023 - lyellcollection.org
On 6 February 2023, an earthquake with magnitude Mw c. 7.0 on the Narlı Fault, a fault sub-
parallel to the East Anatolian Fault Zone (EAFZ), initiated a chain of large earthquakes on …

Coseismic kinematics of the 2023 Kahramanmaras, Turkey earthquake sequence from InSAR and optical data

L He, G Feng, W Xu, Y Wang, Z Xiong… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We derive the ALOS‐2 coseismic interferograms, pixel‐offsets and Sentinel‐2 sub‐pixel
offsets of the 2023 Mw7. 8 and Mw7. 7 Kahramanmaras, Turkey earthquake sequence …

Months-long seismicity transients preceding the 2023 MW 7.8 Kahramanmaraş earthquake, Türkiye

G Kwiatek, P Martínez-Garzón, D Becker… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Short term prediction of earthquake magnitude, time, and location is currently not possible.
In some cases, however, documented observations have been retrospectively considered …