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An Overview Of The Current Seismicity Of The Sultandağı Fault Zone (Afyonkarahisar-Konya, Western Anatolia), Doğan Kalafat, Yavuz Güneş, Mehmet Kara, Kıvanç Kekovali
An Overview Of The Current Seismicity Of The Sultandağı Fault Zone (Afyonkarahisar-Konya, Western Anatolia), Doğan Kalafat, Yavuz Güneş, Mehmet Kara, Kıvanç Kekovali
Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration
Western Anatolia is one of the most seismically active regions in Turkey. The high seismic activity is a result of a complex tectonic deformation dominated by the N-S extensional tectonic regime in Western Anatolia. This tectonic deformation is also a result of the relative movement of the African- Arabian plates towards the north, which causes the Anatolian plate to shift 2.5 cm per year towards W-SW. One of the largest fault zones in the Western Anatolia, Sultandağı Fault Zone (SFZ) has a northwest-southeast trend. SFZ, approximately 120 km long, is an important tectonic structure, which produced three major earthquakes (Mw …