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The 1509 Constantinople earthquake or historically Kıyamet-i Sugra ('Minor Judgment Day') occurred in the Sea of Marmara on 10 September 1509 at about 22:00. The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 7.2 ± 0.3 on the surface-wave magnitude scale. [2] A tsunami and 45 days of aftershocks followed the earthquake. The death toll of this ...
The Sea of Marmara is a pull-apart basin formed at a releasing bend in the North Anatolian Fault (NAF), a right-lateral strike-slip fault. [6] East of the Sea of Marmara the NAF splits into three major branches; while the sinuous southern branch goes inland in a southwesterly direction up to Ayvacık, where it reaches the Aegean Sea near the southern mouth of the Dardanelles, the other two ...
This implied the offshore segments east and west of the onshore Ganos Fault also ruptured. In the Marmara Sea, young fault scarps and right-lateral offsets up to 6 m (20 ft) were found. West of the Ganos Fault is the Saros Fault that lies beneath a bay; estimates of the Saros Fault rupture are between 20 km (12 mi) and 50 km (31 mi).
The Sea of Marmara represents a pull-apart basin in a zone of complex strike-slip tectonic interactions associated with the North Anatolian Fault. The North Anatolian Fault is a predominantly right-lateral strike-slip fault that extends from Karliova to the Gulf of İzmit. West of the gulf, the fault splits into three branches; the northernmost ...
Sea of Marmara: 1999 İzmit earthquake: Earthquake: On 17 August 1999 an earthquake caused a tsunami in the Sea of Marmara, with a maximum water height of 2.52 m. 150 people died when the city of Degirmendere was flooded and another five were washed into the sea in Ulaşlı. [48]
On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southeast Asia, triggering the worst tsunami in recorded history. According to United Nations estimates, more than 220,000 people were killed ...
The 542 Sea of Marmara earthquake took place in the winter of 542 in the vicinity of the Sea of Marmara.It also affected the coasts of Thrace and the Edremit Gulf. [1] The earthquake affected the eastern Roman empire during the reign of the emperor Justinian I.
The Sea of Marmara, [a] also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, is a small inland sea entirely within the borders of Turkey. It links the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea via the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits, separating Turkey’s European and Asian sides.