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

Barbot, Sylvain; Luo, Heng; Wang, Teng; Hamiel, Yariv; Piatibratova, Oksana; Tahir Javed, Muhammad; Braitenberg, Carla; Gurbuz, Gokhan

doi:10.26443/seismica.v2i3.502

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

Shared by NobleBlocks on Apr 20, 2023 • 12:00 AM UTC

Authors:

Sylvain Barbot

Heng Luo

Teng Wang

Abstract

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 segment of the left-lateral East Anatolian Fault, propagating through multiple releasing step-overs. The Mw 7.6 aftershock involved nearby left-l...

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