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The North Anatolian Fault (NAF; Turkish: Kuzey Anadolu Fay Hattı) is an active right-lateral strike-slip fault in northern Anatolia, and is the transform boundary between the Eurasian plate and the Anatolian sub-plate. The fault extends westward from a junction with the East Anatolian Fault at the Karliova triple junction in eastern Turkey ...
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]
Anatolian plate. The Anatolian sub-plate [1] [2] is a continental tectonic plate that is separated from the Eurasian plate and the Arabian plate by the North Anatolian Fault and the East Anatolian Fault respectively. Most of the country of Turkey is located on the Anatolian plate. [3]
The epicentre was about 26 km east of the Turkish city of Nurdagi at a depth of about 18 km on the East Anatolian Fault. During the 20th century, the East Anatolian Fault yielded little major ...
The earthquake occurred on the North Anatolian Fault, which is a fault line around 1500 km long, right-lateral, strike-slip plate boundary fault between the Eurasian plate and the Anatolian Plate that travels across the northern section of Turkey. Large earthquakes measuring 7+ magnitudes on the North Anatolian fault in the 1900s have ruptured ...
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 ...
The North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ), where the earthquake occurred, is a 1,200 km (750 mi) right-lateral strike-slip fault zone. It extends from the Gulf of Saros to Karlıova. It formed around 13–11 million years ago in the eastern part of Anatolia and developed westwards.
The North Anatolian Fault in Asia Minor is a major transform fault boundary where the Eurasian plate slides past the smaller Anatolian Microplate. Running for over 1,600 km, the fault stretches from Eastern Turkey to the Sea of Marmara. [8] The North Anatolian fault has been, and remains very active.