The North Anatolian Fault (Turkish: Kuzey Anadolu Fayı) is one of the most energetic earthquake zones in the world. Turkey is set on a minor tectonic plate which is being squeezed westwards as the Arabian and the Eurasian plates move together. The North Anatolian Plate is grinding past the two plates at a rate between 1cm and 20cm a year. Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 An earthquake is a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the Earths crust. ... The tectonic plates of the world were mapped in the second half of the 20th century. ... The Eurasian plate is shown in green on this map. ... A year is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. ...
Recent events
Izmit Earthquake of 1999
Significant earthquakes along the fault
Since the disastrous 1939 Erzincan earthquake, there have been seven earthquakes measuring over 7.0 on the Richter scale, each has happened at a point progressively further west. Seismologists studying this pattern, believe that earthquakes happen in "storms" over a number of decades and that one earthquake triggers the next. By analysing the stresses caused along the fault by each earthquake, they were able to forecast a disturbance that hit the town of Izmit with such devastating effect in August1999. It is thought that the chain is not complete, and that an earthquake will soon strike further west along the fault - perhaps in the heavily populated city of Istanbul. On December 27, 1939, an earthquake of seven violent shocks measuring 7. ... Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 An earthquake is a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the Earths crust. ... The Richter magnitude test scale (or more correctly local magnitude ML scale) assigns a single number to quantify the size of an earthquake. ... An earthquake storm is a recently proposed theory about earthquakes where an earthquake can trigger a series of other large earthquakes within the same tectonic plate as the stress transfers along the fault. ... Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 An earthquake is a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the Earths crust. ... There are various types of faults: In document ISO/CD 10303-226, a fault is defined as an abnormal condition or defect at the component, equipment, or sub-system level which may lead to a failure. ... Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 An earthquake is a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the Earths crust. ... İzmit (also known as Kocaeli; previously known as Ismid or Isnikmid) is a city in the northwestern part of Anatolia, Turkey. ... August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 An earthquake is a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the Earths crust. ... Satellite image of Istanbul and the Bosphorus Istanbul (Turkish: İstanbul) is Turkeys largest city, and its cultural and economic center. ...
The NorthAnatolianFault (Turkish: Kuzey Anadolu Fayı) is one of the most energetic earthquake zones in the world.
The NorthAnatolian Plate is grinding past the two plates at a rate between 1cm and 20cm a year.
By analysing the stresses caused along the fault by each earthquake, they were able to forecast a disturbance that hit the town of Izmit with such devastating effect in August1999.
The NorthAnatolianfault emerges as a close analogue of the San Andreas fault in California, with the two continental transforms sharing similar slip rates, total length, and straightness relative to their poles of rotation (Fig.
Faults are assumed to be vertical and to slip in the sense indicated by the arrows, except for the west end of the 1939 rupture, which dips 50°N and has oblique reverse slip.
Faults were digitized at 5-km increments, with calculations performed with the fault projected in UTM coordinates, as in Fig.
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