Potential domino effect of the 2023 Kahramanmaras earthquake on the centuries-long seismic quiescence of the Dead Sea fault: inferences from the North Anatolian fault.

ABSTRACT: Field observations conducted immediately following the February 6, 2023, Mw 7.8 Kahramanmaraş earthquake documented the southern surface rupture termination in the Amik Basin. The termination occurred in an en-echelon pattern, extending across the 3.5 km width of the approximately 10-km-wide stepover. This extension reached towards the northern tip of the Hacıpaşa Fault, which constitutes the main northern segment of the Dead Sea Fault Zone (DSFZ). Archaeoseismologic and paleoseismologic data show that the approximately 800-km-long DSFZ has been seismically quiet for more than 600 years in the north and 900 years in the south. A similar fault connection geometry at the western end of the 1939 Ms 7.9 Erzincan earthquake in the easternmost part of the North Anatolian Fault Zone and the subse

SUBMITTER: Altunel E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11224342 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature