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Tectonic plates in Turkey; the Anatolian sub-plate, the African plate, the Arabian plate, and the Eurasian plate. Except for a relatively small portion of its territory along the Syrian border that is a continuation of the Arabian plate, Turkey geologically is part of the great Alpide belt that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Himalaya ...
The northern edge is a transform boundary with the Eurasian plate, forming the North Anatolian Fault zone (NAFZ). Eurasian and Anatolian plates. Research indicates that the Anatolian plate is rotating counterclockwise as it is being pushed west by the Arabian plate, impeded from any northerly movement by the Eurasian plate. [8]
The Karliova triple junction is a geological intersection point located in eastern Turkey, where the boundaries of the Arabian plate, the Eurasian plate, and the African plate meet. It is a complex structure with multiple faults and fractures, resulting from the collision and convergence of these tectonic plates.
These are the North Anatolian Fault Zone, which forms the present-day plate boundary of Eurasia near the Black Sea coast, and the East Anatolian Fault Zone, which forms part of the boundary of the North Arabian plate in the southeast. As a result, Turkey lies on one of the world's seismically most active regions. [citation needed] However, many ...
The East Anatolian Fault (EAF; Turkish: Doğu Anadolu Fay Hattı) is a ~700 km long major strike-slip fault zone running from eastern to south-central Turkey.It forms the transform type tectonic boundary between the Anatolian sub-plate and the northward-moving Arabian plate. [1]
The fault extends westward from a junction with the East Anatolian Fault at the Karliova triple junction in eastern Turkey, across northern Turkey and into the Aegean Sea for a length of 1200 [1] −1500 kilometers. [2] It runs about 20 km south of Istanbul. The North Anatolian Fault is similar in many ways to the San Andreas Fault in California.
Central southern Turkey and northwestern Syria are affected by the interaction between three tectonic plates; the African plate, Arabian plate and Anatolian sub-plate. The boundary between the African and Arabian plates is represented by the Dead Sea Transform (DST)—a major zone of left-lateral strike-slip fault—it accommodates the relative ...
Map of earthquakes in Turkey, 1900–2023 Map of plate boundaries affecting Turkey. Turkey has had many earthquakes.This list includes any notable historical earthquakes that have epicenters within the current boundaries of Turkey, or which caused significant effects in this area.