Fracture energy and breakdown work during earthquakes

M Cocco, S Aretusini, C Cornelio… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Large seismogenic faults consist of approximately meter-thick fault cores surrounded by
hundreds-of-meters-thick damage zones. Earthquakes are generated by rupture …

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 …

Dynamic Rupture Process of the 2023 Mw 7.8 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake (SE Türkiye): Variable Rupture Speed and Implications for Seismic Hazard

Z Wang, W Zhang, T Taymaz, Z He… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We considered various non‐uniformities such as branch faults, rotation of stress field
directions, and changes in tectonic environments to simulate the dynamic rupture process of …

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 …

2022  6.6 Luding, China, Earthquake: A Strong Continental Event Illuminating the Moxi Seismic Gap

L Zhang, Y Zhou, X Zhang, A Zhu… - Seismological …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
On 5 September 2022, an M w 6.6 strike‐slip earthquake occurred in Luding, Sichuan,
China. It illuminates the seismic gap on the southern end of Xianshuihe fault zone, that is …

Multi‐scale rupture growth with alternating directions in a complex fault network during the 2023 south‐eastern Türkiye and Syria earthquake doublet

R Okuwaki, Y Yagi, T Taymaz… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A devastating doublet of earthquakes with moment magnitude MW 7.9 and MW 7.6
earthquakes contiguously occurred in SE Türkiye near the NW border of Syria. Here we …

Arrest of the Mw 6.8 January 24, 2020 Elaziğ (Turkey) earthquake by shallow fault creep

Z Cakir, U Doğan, AM Akoğlu, S Ergintav… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
It has long been conjectured that creeping sections of strike slip faults arrest or subdue
earthquake rupture, partly because of their reduced slip potential and partly because of their …

[HTML][HTML] High-resolution seismicity imaging and early aftershock migration of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş (SE Türkiye) MW7. 9 & 7.8 earthquake doublet

H Ding, Y Zhou, Z Ge, T Taymaz, A Ghosh, H Xu… - Earthquake Science, 2023 - Elsevier
We build a high-resolution early aftershock catalog for the 2023 SE Türkiye seismic
sequence with PALM, a seamless workflow that sequentially performs phase picking …

Long-period directivity pulses of strong ground motion during the 2023 Mw7. 8 Kahramanmaraş earthquake

F Čejka, J Zahradník, F Turhan, E Sokos… - Communications Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Damages due to large earthquakes are influenced by broadband source effects that remain
enigmatic. Here we develop a broadband (0–10 Hz) source model of the disastrous 2023 …

From Interseismic Deformation With Near‐Repeating Earthquakes to Co‐Seismic Rupture: A Unified View of the 2020 Mw6.8 Sivrice (Elazığ) Eastern Turkey …

AÖ Konca, H Karabulut, SE Güvercin… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The East Anatolian Fault (EAF) is a left‐lateral transform fault accommodating the
relative motion between the Anatolian and Arabian plates. On January 24, 2020, Mw6. 8 …