![]() ![]() ![]() This escape has developed the right-lateral strike-slip North Anatolia fault system along the northern boundary of Turkey and the left-lateral East Anatolia fault system in southern Turkey.ĭuring the 20th century, there was a series of large, deadly, and damaging earthquakes along the North Anatolia fault (NAF), culminating (for now) with the 1999 M7.6 Izmit Earthquake. Turkey is escaping this convergence westwards. In the aftershock poster below, we see the Bitlis-Zagros fold and thrust belt, also part of this convergence. This convergence helps form the European Alps and the Asian Himalaya. The Arabia plate moves north towards the Eurasia plate, forming the Alpide belt (perhaps the longest convergent plate boundary on Earth, extending from Australia/Indonesia in the east to offshore Portugal in the west. It may be centuries to millenia before we really know the real answer to why faults are where they are and how they relate to each other. It is possible that the people that organized these faults did not fully understand the reason these faults are here, so they may have organized them incorrectly. The faults don’t know this and don’t care. The first thing to remember is that people created these names and organized these faults using these names. The East Anatolia fault is a left-lateral strike-slip fault system composed of many faults and is subdivided into different branches and different segments. I will be updating this page over the next few days. This size of an earthquake would be damaging on its own, let alone as it is an aftershock. There has already been an aftershock with a magnitude M 6.7. This is the same magnitude as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. ![]() The videos I have seen so far are terrifying. Hopefully international aid can rapidly travel there to assist in rescue and recovery. This earthquake is the largest magnitude event in Turkey since 1939 and it looks like there will be many many casualties. We call this the Kahramanmaras Earthquake We just had a severe earthquake in south eastern Turkey, northwestern Syria. ![]()
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