Analysis of microseismicity associated with the 2017 seismic swarm near the Aegean coast of NW Turkey
| Autor: | D. Kementzetzidou, Vassilios Karakostas, Maria Mesimeri, Eleftheria Papadimitriou, Christos Kourouklas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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geography
geography.geographical_feature_category 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Fault (geology) Induced seismicity 010502 geochemistry & geophysics Earthquake swarm Spatial distribution 01 natural sciences Sequence (geology) Geophysics Period (geology) Structural geology Geothermal gradient Seismology Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Acta Geophysica. 66:479-495 |
| ISSN: | 1895-7455 1895-6572 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11600-018-0157-7 |
| Popis: | A thorough spatiotemporal analysis of the intense seismic activity that took place near the Aegean coast of NW Turkey during January–March 2017 was conducted, aiming to identify its causative relation to the regional seismotectonic properties. In this respect, absolute and relative locations are paired and a catalog consisting of 2485 events was compiled. Relative locations are determined with high accuracy using the double-difference technique and differential times both from phase pick data and from cross-correlation measurements. The spatial distribution of the relocated events revealed a south-dipping causative fault along with secondary and smaller antithetic segments. Spatially, the seismicity started at the westernmost part and migrated with time to the easternmost part of the activated area. Temporally, two distinctive periods are observed, namely an early period lasting 1 month and a second period which includes the largest events in the sequence. The investigation of the interevent time distribution revealed a triggering mechanism, whereas the ETAS parameters show a strong external force (μ > 1), which might be attributed to the existence of the Tuzla geothermal field. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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