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Microseismicity at the North Anatolian Fault in the Sea of Marmara offshore Istanbul, NW Turkey by Bulut, Fatih, Bohnhoff, Marco, Ellsworth, William L., Aktar, Mustafa, Dresen, Georg

“…The North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ) below the Sea of Marmara forms a “seismic gap” where a major earthquake is expected to occur in the near future. This…”
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Characterization of aftershock-fault plane orientations of the 1999 İzmit (Turkey) earthquake using high-resolution aftershock locations by Bulut, Fatih, Bohnhoff, Marco, Aktar, Mustafa, Dresen, Georg

“…Joint inversion for hypocentral parameters and the velocity field is nowadays a state of the art tool to obtain high‐resolution images of seismically active…”
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Accurate relocation of İzmit earthquake (Mw = 7.4, 1999) aftershocks in Çınarcık Basin using double difference method by Bulut, Fatih, Aktar, Mustafa

“…We relocated part of the aftershock activity in Çınarcık Basin and surrounding areas that are associated with the 1999 İzmit earthquake Mw 7.4. Double…”
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A shallow fault-zone structure illuminated by trapped waves in the Karadere–Duzce branch of the North Anatolian Fault, western Turkey by Ben-Zion, Yehuda, Peng, Zhigang, Okaya, David, Seeber, Leonardo, Armbruster, John G., Ozer, Naside, Michael, Andrew J., Baris, Serif, Aktar, Mustafa

“…We discuss the subsurface structure of the Karadere–Duzce branch of the North Anatolian Fault based on analysis of a large seismic data set recorded by a local…”
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Contribution to the seismotectonics of Eastern Turkey from moderate and small size events by Örgülü, Gonca, Aktar, Mustafa, Türkelli, Niyazi, Sandvol, Eric, Barazangi, Muawia

“…Source properties of small‐to‐moderate magnitude events in eastern Turkey were studied using high quality waveform data produced by the Eastern Turkey Seismic…”
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Seismic imaging of the 1999 Izmit (Turkey) Rupture inferred from the near-fault recordings by Bouchon, Michel, Toksöz, Nafi, Karabulut, Hayrullah, Bouin, Marie-Paule, Dietrich, Michel, Aktar, Mustafa, Edie, Margaret

“…We use near‐fault accelerograms to infer the space‐time history of rupture on the fault during the Izmit earthquake. The records show that the ground…”
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Lower crustal seismic activity in the Adana Basin (Eastern Mediterranean): Possible connection to gravitational flexure by Ergin, Mehmet, Aktar, Mustafa

“…High quality broadband data, together with the application of the double difference relocation technique, has been used to study the characteristics of the…”
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A tomographic image of the shallow crustal structure in the Eastern Marmara by Karabulut, Hayrullah, Özalaybey, Serdar, Taymaz, Tuncay, Aktar, Mustafa, Selvi, Oğuz, Kocaoğlu, Argun

“…We present a 2‐D tomographic seismic velocity image in eastern Marmara region along a N‐S trending 120‐km long seismic refraction profile, which traverses the…”
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Extended Nucleation of the 1999 M w 7.6 Izmit Earthquake by Bouchon, Michel, Karabulut, Hayrullah, Aktar, Mustafa, Özalaybey, Serdar, Schmittbuhl, Jean, Bouin, Marie-Paule

“…Laboratory and theoretical studies suggest that earthquakes are preceded by a phase of developing slip instability in which the fault slips slowly before…”
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Drilling the North Anatolian Fault by Mustafa Aktar, Marco Bohnhoff, Georg Dresen, Haluk Eyidogan

“…An international workshop entitled “GONAF: A deep Geophysical Observatory at the North Anatolian Fault”, was held 23–27 April 2007 in Istanbul, Turkey. The aim…”
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Drilling the North Anatolian Fault by Haluk Eyidogan, Marco Bohnhoff, Mustafa Aktar, Georg Dresen

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An earthquake gap south of Istanbul by Bohnhoff, Marco, Bulut, Fatih, Dresen, Georg, Malin, Peter E., Eken, Tuna, Aktar, Mustafa

“…Over the last century the North Anatolian Fault Zone in Turkey has produced a remarkable sequence of large earthquakes. These events have now left an…”
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A lower-crustal event in the northeastern Mediterranean: The 1998 Adana earthquake (Mw= 6.2) and its aftershocks by Aktar, Mustafa, Ergin, Mehmet, Özalaybey, Serdar, Tapirdamaz, Cengiz, Yörük, Ahmet, Biçmen, Faruk

“…We analyse the main and aftershocks of the June 27, 1998 Adana earthquake using data from the short‐period Cilician seismograph network in order to investigate…”
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Extended Nucleation of the 1999 Mw 7.6 Izmit Earthquake by Bouchon, Michel, Karabulut, Hayrullah, Aktar, Mustafa, Özalaybey, Serdar, Schmittbuhl, Jean, Bouin, Marie-Paule

“…Laboratory and theoretical studies suggest that earthquakes are preceded by a phase of developing slip instability in which the fault slips slowly before…”
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The nucleation of the Izmit and Düzce earthquakes: some mechanical logic on where and how ruptures began by Bouchon, Michel, Karabulut, Hayrullah, Aktar, Mustafa, Özalaybey, Serdar, Schmittbuhl, Jean, Bouin, Marie-Paule, Marsan, David

“…SUMMARY In spite of growing evidence that many earthquakes are preceded by increased seismic activity, the nature of this activity is still poorly understood…”
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Long-wavelength undulations of the seismic Moho beneath the strongly stretched Western Anatolia by Karabulut, Hayrullah, Paul, Anne, Afacan Ergün, Tugce, Hatzfeld, Denis, Childs, Dean M., Aktar, Mustafa

“…Western Turkey provides spectacular examples of the two end-member models of deformation of the continental lithosphere, with strain localization along the…”
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Velocity contrast across the 1944 rupture zone of the North Anatolian fault east of Ismetpasa from analysis of teleseismic arrivals by Ozakin, Yaman, Ben-Zion, Yehuda, Aktar, Mustafa, Karabulut, Hayrullah, Peng, Zhigang

“…We use differences between arrival times of teleseismic events at sets of stations crossing the North Anatolian fault east of Ismetpasa, where shallow creep…”
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Regional moment tensor inversion for strong aftershocks of the August 17, 1999 Izmit Earthquake (Mw=7.4) by Örgülü, Gonca, Aktar, Mustafa

“…We analyzed the source mechanisms of the thirty largest aftershocks (4.0 ≤ML ≤ 6.2) of the August 17, 1999 Izmit earthquake (Mw=7.4) by applying the Regional…”
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A conjugate strike‐slip fault system within the extensional tectonics of Western Turkey by Aktar, Mustafa, Karabulut, Hayrullah, Özalaybey, Serdar, Childs, Dean

“…SUMMARY Three main shocks M‐1, M‐2 and M‐3 (17 October 2005 at 05:45 UTC, Mw 5.4; 17 October at 09:46 UTC, Mw 5.8 and 20 October at 21:40 UTC, Mw 5.9) and…”
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A Bayesian Deconvolution Approach for Receiver Function Analysis by Yildirim, S, Cemgil, A T, Aktar, M, Ozakin, Y, Ertuzun, A

“…In this paper, we propose a Bayesian methodology for receiver function analysis, a key tool in determining the deep structure of the Earth's crust. We exploit…”
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