Palaeoearthquakes on the Kelkit Valley Segment of the North Anatolian Fault, Turkey: Implications for the Surface Rupture of the Historical 17 August 1668 Anatolian Earthquake

Zabcı, Cengiz; Serdar Akyüz, H.; Karabaçak, Volkan; Sançar, Taylan; Altunel, Erhan; Gürsoy, Hali̇l; Tatar, Orhan

doi:10.3906/yer-0910-48

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Palaeoearthquakes on the Kelkit Valley Segment of the North Anatolian Fault, Turkey: Implications for the Surface Rupture of the Historical 17 August 1668 Anatolian Earthquake

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Authors:

Cengiz Zabcı

H. Serdar Akyüz

Volkan Karabaçak

Abstract

The 26 December 1939 Erzincan (Ms= 7.8) and 20 December 1942 Erbaa-Niksar (Ms= 7.1) earthquakes created a total surface rupture more than 400 km between Erzincan and Erbaa on the middle to eastern sections of the North Anatolian Fault. These two faulting events are separated by a 10-km-wide releasin...

Subject

North Anatolian Fault

Seismology

Geology

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