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Aykut Barka
Researcher at Istanbul Technical University
Publications - 80
Citations - 11823
Aykut Barka is an academic researcher from Istanbul Technical University. The author has contributed to research in topics: North Anatolian Fault & Fault (geology). The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 80 publications receiving 11243 citations. Previous affiliations of Aykut Barka include Massachusetts Institute of Technology & University of Bristol.
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Global Positioning System constraints on plate kinematics and dynamics in the eastern Mediterranean and Caucasus
Simon McClusky,S. Balassanian,Aykut Barka,Coskun Demir,Semih Ergintav,Ivan Georgiev,O. Gurkan,Michael W. Hamburger,K. Hurst,Hans-Gert Kahle,Kim A. Kastens,G. Kekelidze,Robert W. King,V. Kotzev,Onur Lenk,Salah Mahmoud,A. Mishin,M. Nadariya,A. Ouzounis,Demitris Paradissis,Yannick Peter,M. Prilepin,Robert Reilinger,I. Sanli,H. Seeger,A. Tealeb,M. N. Toksoz,G. Veis +27 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present and interpret GPS measurements of crustal motions for the period 1988-1997 at 189 sites extending east-west from the Caucasus mountains to the Adriatic Sea and north-south from the southern edge of the Eurasian plate to the northern edge of Africa.
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Progressive failure on the North Anatolian fault since 1939 by earthquake stress triggering
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the mapped surface slip and fault geometry to infer the transfer of stress throughout the sequence of the North Anatolian fault. But they do not consider the effects of the sudden stress changes in the Coulomb failure stress.
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Strike-slip fault geometry in Turkey and its influence on earthquake activity
Aykut Barka,K. Kadinsky-Cade +1 more
Abstract: The geometry of Turkish strike-slip faults is reviewed, showing that fault geometry plays an important role in controlling the location of large earthquake rupture segments along the fault zones. It is found that large earthquake ruptures generally do not propagate past individual stepovers that are wider than 5 km or bends that have angles greater than about 30 degrees. It is suggested that certain geometric patterns are responsible for strain accumulation along portions of the fault zone. It is shown that fault geometry plays a role in the characteristics of earthquake behavior and that aftershocks and swarm activity are often associated with releasing areas.
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Global Positioning System measurements of present-day crustal movements in the Arabia-Africa-Eurasia plate collision zone
Robert Reilinger,Simon McClusky,M. B. Oral,Robert W. King,M. N. Toksoz,Aykut Barka,I. Kinik,Onur Lenk,I. Sanli +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present and interpret GPS measurements of crustal motions for the period 1988-1994 at 54 sites extending east-west from the Caucasus mountains of southern Russia, Georgia, and Armenia to the Aegean coast of Turkey and north-south from the southern edge of the Eurasian plate (Pontus block) to the northern edge of a platform.
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Westward propagation of the North Anatolian fault into the northern Aegean: Timing and kinematics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present new evidence for the propagation processes of the North Anatolian fault in the Dardanelles Straits region allowing them to document the timing of the deformation preceding, and the finite displacement after, the passage of the propagating tip of the fault.