Near-surface structure of the North Anatolian Fault zone from Rayleigh and Love wave tomography using ambient seismic noise

Taylor, George; Rost, Sebastian; Houseman, Gregory A.; Hillers, Gregor

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-363-2019

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-363-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-363-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

Research article

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06 Mar 2019

Research article |

| 06 Mar 2019

Near-surface structure of the North Anatolian Fault zone from Rayleigh and Love wave tomography using ambient seismic noise

George Taylor, Sebastian Rost, Gregory A. Houseman, and Gregor Hillers

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-363-2019-supplement

Data sets

Dense Array for Northern Anatolia International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks https://doi.org/10.7914/SN/YH_2012

Short summary

We constructed a seismic velocity model of the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey. We found that the fault is located within a region of reduced seismic velocity and skirts the edges of a geological unit that displays high seismic velocity, indicating that this unit could be stronger than the surrounding material. Furthermore, we found that seismic waves travel fastest in the NE–SW direction, which is the direction of maximum extension for this part of Turkey and indicates mineral alignment.