Revision of the tsunami catalogue affecting Turkish coasts and surrounding regions

Altınok, Yıldız; Alpar, Bedri; Özer, Naşi̇de; Aykurt, Hanife

doi:10.5194/nhess-11-273-2011

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“…9). This date coincides with the AD 110 and AD 115 Antioch Earthquakes in literature (Altınok et al, 2011;Erel and Adatepe, 2007;Sbeinati et al, 2005). In the same literature, it is specified that the intensities of AD 110 and AD 115 Antioch Earthquakes were respectively 8 and 9, and 260,000 people died as a result of these earthquakes.…”

Section: Sakarlakmentioning

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Traces of Earthquates in the Caves: Sakarlak Ponor and Kepez Cave, Mersin, (Southern Turkey)

Akgöz¹,

Eren²

2015

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Abstract:The study area is located in the central part of the Taurus Mountains, where karstification is widespread and strongly influenced by tectonic rise of the region and sealevel changes in the Mediterranean Sea during the Pleistocene. Young karstification in the area was largely affected by NE-SW trending left-lateral strike-slip faults and NW-SE trending discontinuities. The general extension of discontinuities is perpendicular to the faulting direction indicated by evaluation of the caves with the digital elevation model and lineament analysis. Findings of this investigation suggest that differences in the periodic development of the stalagmites are mainly due to tectonic movements. Therefore, the times of the growth-axis angle deviations for representative stalagmite samples from the Sakarlak Ponor and Kepez Cave were determined by U/Th analyses. The results tend to significantly overlap with times of historical earthquakes.

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Section: Sakarlakmentioning

confidence: 96%

Traces of Earthquates in the Caves: Sakarlak Ponor and Kepez Cave, Mersin, (Southern Turkey)

Akgöz¹,

Eren²

2015

JCKS

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“…The earliest historically documented tsunamigenic earthquake in this region occurred in 330 BC around Lemnos Island, a mere 220 km SE (Altinok et al 2009(Altinok et al , 2011Soloviev et al 2000). This large magnitude earthquake is thought to have resulted in the disappearance of Chrysi Island and the Moschylos volcano (Soloviev et al 2000) with tsunami deposits reported from the Turkish coast some 180 km NE (Altinok et al 2013).…”

Section: An Alternative Hypothesis For the Interpretation Of Mass Burmentioning

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Prehistoric Coastal Mass Burials: Did Death Come in Waves?

Cain

Goff

McFadgen

2018

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Recent large tsunamis in the twenty-first century have provided graphic reminders of the catastrophic impacts such natural hazards can have upon coastal communities. Death tolls in the thousands give rise to the rapid adoption of coastal mass burials for the interment of the dead. While recognised as a necessary practice in the aftermath of such contemporary tragedies, the paucity of coastal mass burial sites related to earlier tsunamis reported in the archaeological record is unusual. We establish a suite of criteria for identifying the geological and archaeological evidence of inundation by past tsunamis and review case studies from two well-documented prehistoric coastal mass burial sites in the Southern Hemisphere (Solomon Islands and Vanuatu). To varying degrees, both sites possess numerous characteristics that suggest direct correlation with previously reported catastrophic palaeotsunamis. In the Northern Hemisphere, we investigate palaeotsunami inundation as an alternative hypothesis for mass burial sites in Orkney and Shetland, a relatively tectonically inactive region where such an association is unlikely to have ever been considered. The nature, chronology and location of these mass burial sites fit well with the proposed archaeological evidence for palaeotsunami inundation, and they also appear to be contemporaneous with the as-yet poorly documented Garth tsunami (~5500 years BP). We suggest that a potentially key diagnostic criterion for determining a palaeotsunami linkage is the use of diatom testing on skeletal remains to establish whether death was caused by drowning in saltwater, a test which has never been applied in this context. J Archaeol Method Theory

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“…); (2) mass wasting and creep (Zitter et al, 2012;Shillington et al, 2012); (3) deep sedimentation specificities Sari and Çagatay, 2006;Çagatay et al, 2012;Drab et al, 2012); and (4) detection and dating of historical coseismic scarps (Armijo et al, 2005;Uçarkuş, 2010). Historical tsunami reports and modeling (Altinok et al, 2011;Hébert et al, 2005) complete these different data, taking into account the fact that these phenomena are not systematically associated with Armijo et al (2002Armijo et al ( , 2005, and GPS kinematics from McClusky et al (2000) and Reilinger et al (2006). earthquakes .…”

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Estimation of successive coseismic vertical offsets using coeval sedimentary events – application to the southwestern limit of the Sea of Marmara's Central Basin (North Anatolian Fault)

Beck

Campos

Eriş

et al. 2015

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. In the deep part of the Sea of Marmara (Turkey), the sedimentation developing upon the North Anatolian Fault is strongly influenced by the associated seismic activity, through gravity reworking (fluidized landslides) and tsunamis. Specific layers (homogenites + turbidites, HmTu), representing individual sedimentary events, have been characterized along three giant piston cores retrieved from the Çinarcik and Central (or Orta) basins. Pre-Holocene, nonmarine sediments, were analyzed, representing the last 12-17 kyr BP (before present). For a 2 kyr long interval, 11 events could be precisely correlated on both sides of the Central Basin's southwestern scarp. For each of them, based on the specific depositional process, the thickness difference between the two sites was considered as a direct estimation of the vertical component of a coeval coseismic offset. The homogenite (upper) component accounts for the major part of the thickness difference (ranging from 36 to 144 cm). These offsets were considered as likely representing dominantly vertical throws, along the transtensional southwestern boundary of the inner, pull-apart Central Basin. In terms of natural hazards, further investigations on this local behavior should rather be directed to tsunami genesis.

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Revision of the tsunami catalogue affecting Turkish coasts and surrounding regions

Cited by 81 publications

References 60 publications

Traces of Earthquates in the Caves: Sakarlak Ponor and Kepez Cave, Mersin, (Southern Turkey)

Traces of Earthquates in the Caves: Sakarlak Ponor and Kepez Cave, Mersin, (Southern Turkey)

Prehistoric Coastal Mass Burials: Did Death Come in Waves?

Estimation of successive coseismic vertical offsets using coeval sedimentary events – application to the southwestern limit of the Sea of Marmara's Central Basin (North Anatolian Fault)

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