The North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ) is a 1600 km long geologic fault between the northern edge of the Anatolian Plate and the Eurasian Plate in northern Turkey. A series of 12 earthquakes of magnitude 6.5 or greater have occurred along this fault between 1939 and 1999. Old fault exposed by roadcut near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. ... The Anatolian Plate is a continential tectonic plate consisting primarily of the country of Turkey. ... Categories: Plate tectonics | Geology stubs ... The Republic of Turkey is a country located in Southwest Asia with a small part of its territory (3%) in southeastern Europe. ...
Initiated the eastward migration of significant earthquakes on the NorthAnatolianfault.
Earthquakes on the NorthAnatolianfault are caused by the northwards motion of the Arabian plate against the Eurasian plate, squeezing the small Turkish micro plate westwards.
The small Turkish micro plate is bounded on the east by the East Anatolianfaultzone (EAFZ), on the north by the NorthAnatolianfaultzone (NAFZ), on the west by a diffuse zone of deformation surrounding the greater Aegean region, and on the south by the Hellenic and Cyprus arcs.
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.
Barka, A. A., The NorthAnatolianfaultzone, Annales Tectonicae, VI suppl., 164-195, 1992.
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