Repeating earthquakes

N Uchida, R Bürgmann - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Repeating earthquakes, or repeaters, are identical in location and geometry but occur at
different times. They appear to represent recurring seismic energy release from distinct …

Misconception of waveform similarity in the identification of repeating earthquakes

D Gao, H Kao, B Wang - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Identification of repeating earthquakes (repeaters) usually depends on waveform similarity
expressed as the corresponding cross‐correlation coefficient (CC) above a prescribed …

Secondary fault system in Northern Sumatra, evidenced by recent seismicity and geomorphic structure

U Muksin, A Arifullah, AVH Simanjuntak, N Asra… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2023 - Elsevier
Several medium-sized inland earthquakes have occurred away from the main Sumatra fault,
which indicates the complexity of fault systems in Aceh, Northern Sumatra. The …

Identification of repeating earthquakes: controversy and rectification

D Gao, H Kao, J Liu - Seismological Research Letters, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Repeating earthquakes (repeaters) are events that recurrently rupture the same fault patch
with nearly identical magnitudes. Although repeaters have been widely studied and utilized …

Connecting subduction, extension and shear localization across the Aegean Sea and Anatolia

S Barbot, JR Weiss - Geophysical Journal International, 2021 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY The Eastern Mediterranean is the most seismically active region in Europe due
to the complex interactions of the Arabian, African, and Eurasian tectonic plates …

Interseismic strain build-up on the submarine North Anatolian Fault offshore Istanbul

D Lange, H Kopp, JY Royer, P Henry, Z Çakir… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Using offshore geodetic observations, we show that a segment of the North Anatolian Fault
in the central Sea of Marmara is locked and therefore accumulating strain. The strain …

A unified earthquake catalogue for the Sea of Marmara Region, Turkey, based on automatized phase picking and travel-time inversion: Seismotectonic implications

C Wollin, M Bohnhoff, P Martínez-Garzón, L Küperkoch… - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
The Marmara section of the North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ) is late in its seismic cycle
and can be expected to produce a magnitude M up to 7.4 earthquake during the next …

A Two‐Scale Preparation Phase Preceded an  5.8 Earthquake in the Sea of Marmara Offshore Istanbul, Turkey

V Durand, S Bentz, G Kwiatek… - Seismological …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We analyze the spatiotemporal evolution of seismicity during a sequence of moderate (an M
w 4.7 foreshock and M w 5.8 mainshock) earthquakes occurring in September 2019 at the …

Magnitudes of future large earthquakes near Istanbul quantified from 1500 years of historical earthquakes, present-day microseismicity and GPS slip rates

F Bulut, B Aktuğ, C Yaltırak, A Doğru, H Özener - Tectonophysics, 2019 - Elsevier
In the past 1500 years, seven sequences of significant earthquakes have occurred on a 160-
km-long segment of the North Anatolian Fault zone (NAFZ) centered on Istanbul. The most …

Deciphering aseismic deformation along submarine fault branches below the eastern Sea of Marmara (Turkey): Insights from seismicity, strainmeter, and GNSS data

V Durand, A Gualandi, S Ergintav, G Kwiatek… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
The recently observed slow transients in the Sea of Marmara are important to quantify the
seismic hazard and risk for the greater Istanbul metropolitan region. In this study, we analyze …