Tectonic implications of the 2017 Ayvacik (Canakkale) earthquakes, Biga Peninsula, NW Turkey

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dc.authoridAltuncu Poyraz, Selda/0000-0003-1270-4518
dc.authoridPINAR, Ali/0000-0002-2641-7344
dc.contributor.authorÖzden, Süha
dc.contributor.authorOver, Semir
dc.contributor.authorPoyraz, Selda Altuncu
dc.contributor.authorGunes, Yavuz
dc.contributor.authorPinar, Ali
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T20:12:15Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T20:12:15Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThe west to southwestward motion of the Anatolian block results from the relative motions between the Eurasian, Arabian and African plates along the right-lateral North Anatolian Fault Zone in the north and left lateral East Anatolian Fault Zone in the east. The Biga Peninsula is tectonically influenced by the Anatolian motion originating along the North Anatolian Fault Zone which splits into two main (northern and southern) branches in the east of Marmara region: the southern branch extends towards the Biga Peninsula which is characterized by strike-slip to oblique normal faulting stress regime in the central to northern part. The southernmost part of peninsula is characterized by a normal to oblique faulting stress regime. The analysis of both seismological and structural field data confirms the change of stress regime from strike-slip character in the center and north to normal faulting character in the south of peninsula where the earthquake swarm recently occurred. The earthquakes began on 14 January 2017 (Mw: 4.4) on Tuzla Fault and migrated southward along the Kocakoy and Babakale's stepped-normal faults of over three months. The inversion of focal mechanisms yields a normal faulting stress regime with an approximately N-S (N4 degrees E) sigma 3 axis. The inversion of earthquakes occurring in central and northern Biga Peninsula and the north Aegean region gives a strike-slip stress regime with approximately WNW-ESE (N85 degrees W) sigma 1 and NNE-SSW (N17 degrees E) sigma 3 axis. The strike-slip stress regime is attributed to westward Anatolian motion, while the normal faulting stress regime is attributed to both the extrusion of Anatolian block and the slab-pull force of the subducting African plate along the Hellenic arc.
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.12.021
dc.identifier.endpage141
dc.identifier.issn1367-9120
dc.identifier.issn1878-5786
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85040786999
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage125
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.12.021
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/20891
dc.identifier.volume154
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000425202000011
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Asian Earth Sciences
dc.relation.publicationcategoryinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20250125
dc.subjectAyvacik
dc.subjectBiga Peninsula
dc.subjectEarthquake
dc.subjectInversion
dc.subjectStress state
dc.subjectExtension
dc.titleTectonic implications of the 2017 Ayvacik (Canakkale) earthquakes, Biga Peninsula, NW Turkey
dc.typeArticle

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