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Some characteristic features of the Anatolian fault zone
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The study of the Anatolian fault zone shows that major earthquake sequences associated with faulting have been occurring in the zone since historical times with periods of quiescence of 150 years as discussed by the authors.About:
This article is published in Tectonophysics.The article was published on 1970-03-01. It has received 450 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Shear zone & North Anatolian Fault.read more
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New Empirical Relationships among Magnitude, Rupture Length, Rupture Width, Rupture Area, and Surface Displacement
TL;DR: In this article, a series of empirical relationships among moment magnitude (M ), surface rupture length, subsurface rupture length and downdip rupture width, and average surface displacement per event are developed.
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The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting
TL;DR: The connection between faults and the seismicity generated is governed by the rate and state dependent friction laws -producing distinctive seismic styles of faulting and a gamut of earthquake phenomena including aftershocks, afterslip, earthquake triggering, and slow slip events.
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Static stress changes and the triggering of earthquakes
TL;DR: In this article, a Coulomb failure criterion was proposed for the production of aftershocks, where faults most likely to slip are those optimally orientated for failure as a result of the prevailing regional stress field and the stress change caused by the mainshock.
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Active tectonics of the Alpine—Himalayan Belt between western Turkey and Pakistan
James Jackson,Dan McKenzie +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used 80 new fault plane solutions, combined with satellite imagery as well as both modern and historical observations of earthquake faulting, to investigate the active tectonics of the Middle East between western Turkey and Pakistan.
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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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Similarities between Shear Zones of Different Magnitudes
TL;DR: In this article, an examination of the formation and development of shear zone structures on microscopic scale in the shear box test, intermediate scale in Riedel experiment, and regional scale in earthquake fault is made.
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The North Pacific: an Example of Tectonics on a Sphere
Dan McKenzie,Robert L. Parker +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the paving stone theory of world tectonics is applied to slip vectors and applied to about a quarter of the Earth's surface, showing that the paving stones theory applies to about half of the surface of the world.
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Seismic moment, seismicity, and rate of slip along major fault zones
TL;DR: In this article, a straightforward method for computing rates of slip from earthquakes in major fault zones is presented, where the slip rate is calculated from the sum of moments for the earthquakes, provided that long time samples are considered and that adjustments are made in the vertical extent of the zone of earthquake generation.
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Brittle-ductile transition in rocks
TL;DR: In this paper, the deformational characteristics of two limestones, one gabbro, and one dunite have been investigated as a function of confining pressure, and it was found that friction of these rocks and friction of granite and serpentinite studied elsewhere are nearly identical, and that the brittle-ductile transition pressure is simply the pressure at which the stress required to form a fault is equal to the pressure required to cause sliding on the fault.
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Structural Analysis of the Dasht-e Bayaz (Iran) Earthquake Fractures
J. S Tchalenko,N. N. Ambraseys +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a structural analysis of the fractures formed in the fault zone associated with the Dasht-e Bayaz earthquake of August 31, 1968 is presented, which is compatible with a predominant movement along the east-west lineament, followed by stress readjustments along the WNW-ESE lineament.
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