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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 ...
This process is still at work today as the African plate converges with the Eurasian plate and the Anatolian sub-plate escapes towards the west and southwest along strike-slip faults. 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 ...
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]
She continued: “The recent earthquakes in East Anatolia have occurred on the East Anatolian Fault and the nearby faults where three tectonic plates meet, what is called a triple junction: the ...
Much of the country lies on the Anatolian sub-plate, a small plate bounded by two major strike-slip fault zones, the North Anatolian Fault and East Anatolian Fault. The western part of the country is also affected by the zone of extensional tectonics in the Aegean Sea caused by the southward migration of the Hellenic arc.
Further west of the Sea of Marmara is the strike-slip Saros (Ganos) Fault which continues west into the North Aegean Sea. [1] The Ganos Fault is an east-northeast–west-southwest trending structure that represents the westernmost segment of the North Anatolian Fault. Its central part runs onshore between Gaziköy and Saros. Geologic studies ...
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 ...