Abstract. Coulomb stress changes before and after the 23 October 2011 Van, eastern Turkey, earthquake have been analysed using available data related to the background and the aftershock seismicity and the source faults. The coseismic stress changes of the background seismicity had slightly promoted stress over the rupture plane of the 2011 Van earthquake, while it yielded a stress shadow over the Gürpı nar Fault which has been argued to have produced the 7 April 1646 Van earthquake. The stress shadow over the Gürp\\i nar fault has become more pronounced following the occurrence of the 2011 Van earthquake, meaning that the repetition of the 1646 Van earthquake has been further suppressed. Spatial distribution and source mechanisms of the 2011 Van earthquake's aftershocks have been utilised to define four clusters with regard to their relative location to the mainshock rupture. In addition, the aftershock sequence covers a much broader area toward the northeast. Correlations between the observed spatial patterns of the aftershocks and the coseismic Coulomb stress changes caused by the mainshock are determined by calculating the stress changes over both optimally oriented and specified fault planes. It is shown here that there is an apparent correlation between the mainshock stress changes and the observed spatial pattern of the aftershock occurrence, demonstrating the usefulness of the stress maps in constraining the likely locations of the upcoming aftershocks and mitigating earthquake hazard.
ÖZ 23 Ekim 2011 Van depreminin geniş bant uzak-alan cisim dalga şekillerinin sonlu-fay modellemesi deprem kırılmasının ters faylanma olduğunu ve tek taraflı olarak GB'ya yayıldığını göstermiştir. Kırılma 5 km altında kısıtlı kalmış, yaklaşık 5.5 m en büyük kayma ile 25 x 16 km'lik bir fay alanını örtmüş ve yaklaşık 11 sn sürmüştür. Sonlu-fay modeli için hesaplanan sismik moment 4.6 x10 19 Nm (Mw=7.1) olup çoğunluğu kırılma başlangıcından sonraki 5-9 sn zaman aralığında serbestlenmiştir. Sonlu-fay analizi en büyük kayma alanı için 3 sn'lik bir yükselim zamanı önermektedir. 2011 Van depreminin 3 büyük artçı depreminin uzak-alan nokta kaynak modellemesi bu artçı depremlerin hem ters hem de doğrultu atımlı faylanma mekanizmalarına sahip olduğunu göstermiş, 9 Kasım 2011 artçı depreminin ana şoktan farklı bir fay üzerinde meydana geldiğini doğrulamıştır. 2011 Van depremi artçı depremlerini içererek ve içermeden yapılan Van Gölü bölgesindeki deprem odak mekanizmalarının gerilme tensör analizleri bölgede gerilme rejiminin doğrultu-atımlı olduğunu ve sıkışma gerilmesi ekseninin yaklaşık K-G doğrultusunda uzandığını belirtmiştir. 2011 Van depremi Doğu Anadolu'da aletsel dönemde hemen hemen tamamıyla ters faylanmalı olarak meydana gelmiş ilk büyük deprem olup bölgede yaygın olarak gözlenen doğrultu atımlı faylanmaların yanısıra ters faylanmalarında meydana gelebileceğini kanıtlamıştır.
The September 26, 2019 Silivri earthquake (MW=5.6-5.8) occurred along the North Anatolian Fault Zone segments extending beneath the Marmara Sea. In the present study the teleseismic P waveforms and 20year long background seismicity of the earthquake (MW=5.6-5.8) have been analyzed. Point-source inversion of the teleseismic P waveforms revealed that the earthquake was due to oblique faulting and released a seismic moment of 3.2 x 10 17 Nm (MW=5.6). The frequency-magnitude distributions (FMDs) for the background seismicity have been calculated after the 1999 İzmit earthquake. The considerable decrease of b-value of the FMD before the 2019 Silivri earthquake has been interpreted as stress increase along the fault segments.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.