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Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
(B.J.M., B.H.H., S.C.M., R.E.R.)
TUBITAK
Marmara Research Center
ESRI Gebze 41470, Turkey
(S.E.)
General Command of Mapping Cebece
Ankara, Turkey
(O.L.)
Istanbul Technical University
Eurasia Earth Science Institute Ayazaga
Istanbul, Turkey
(A.B.)
Kandilli Observatory
Bogazici University
Istanbul, Turkey
(H.O.)
Manuscript received 22 September 2000.
We model the geodetically observed secular velocity field in northwestern Turkey with a block model that accounts for recoverable elastic-strain accumulation. The block model allows us to estimate internally consistent fault slip rates and locking depths. The northern strand of the North Anatolian fault zone (NAFZ) carries approximately four times as much right-lateral motion (
24 mm/yr) as does the southern strand. In the Marmara Sea region, the data show strain accumulation to be highly localized. We find that a straight fault geometry with a shallow locking depth of 6-7 km fits the observed Global Positioning System velocities better than does a stepped fault geometry that follows the northern and eastern edges of the sea. This shallow locking depth suggests that the moment release associated with an earthquake on these faults should be smaller, by a factor of 2.3, than previously inferred assuming a locking depth of 15 km.
Online material: an updated version of velocity-field data.
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