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Article Dans Une Revue Geology Année : 2012

Onset of aseismic creep on major strike-slip faults

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Time series analysis of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data, GPS measurements, and fi eld observations reveal that the central section of the Izmit (Turkey) fault that slipped with a supershear rupture velocity in the A.D. 1999, Mw7.4, Izmit earthquake began creeping aseismically following the earthquake. Rapid initial postseismic afterslip decayed logarithmically with time and appears to have reached a steady rate comparable to the preearthquake full fault-crossing rate, suggesting that it may continue for decades and possibly until late in the earthquake cycle. If confi rmed by future monitoring, these observations identify postseismic afterslip as a mechanism for initiating creep behavior along strike-slip faults. Long-term afterslip and/or creep has signifi cant implications for earthquake cycle models, recurrence intervals of large earthquakes, and accordingly, seismic hazard estimation along mature strike-slip faults, in particular for Istanbul which is believed to lie adjacent to a seismic gap along the North Anatolian fault in the Sea of Marmara.
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hal-00748249 , version 1 (05-11-2012)

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Ziyadin Cakir, Semih Ergintav, Haluk Özener, Ugur Dogan, Ahmet Akoglu, et al.. Onset of aseismic creep on major strike-slip faults. Geology, 2012, pp.1 - 4. ⟨10.1130/G33522.1⟩. ⟨hal-00748249⟩
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