13.07.2016GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel

Scientist Predict Major Earthquake in Istanbul

  

The Anatolian transform fault system, one of the most active in the world. It separates the Eurasian plate from the Anatolian plate in northern Turkey.
The Anatolian transform fault system, one of the most active in the world. It separates the Eurasian plate from the Anatolian plate in northern Turkey.© Image reproduced from the GEBCO world map 2014, www.gebco.net
Original publication:

Sakic, P., H. Piété, V. Ballu, J.-Y. Royer, H. Kopp, D. Lange, F. Petersen, S. Özeren, S. Ergintav, L. Geli, P. Henry and A. Deschamps (2016): No significant steady-state surface creep along the North Anatolian fault offshore Istanbul: results of 6 months of seafloor acoustic ranging. Geophysical Research Letters, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016GL069600