Enhancement of the national strong-motion network in Turkey

Gulkan, P.; Ceken, U.; Colakoglu, Z.; Ugras, T.; Kuru, T.; Apak, A.; Anderson, J. G.; Sucuoglu, H.; Celebi, M.; Akkar, D. S.; Yazgan, U.; Denizlioglu, A. Z.

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Two arrays comprising 20 strong-motion sensors were established in western Turkey. The 14 stations of BYTNet follow a N-S trending line about 65 km in length, normal to strands of the North Anatolian fault that runs between the cities of Bursa and Yalova. Here the dominant character of the potential fault movement is a right-lateral transform slip. The DATNet array, comprising a total of eight stations, is arranged along a 110-km-long E-W trending direction along the Menderes River valley between Denizli and Aydin. (Two stations in this array were incorporated from the existing Turkish national strong-motion network.) This is an extensional tectonic environment, and the network mornitors potential large normal-faulting earthquakes on the faults in the valley. The installation of the arrays was supported by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) under its Science for Peace Program. Maintenance and calibration is performed by the General Directorate of Disaster Affairs (GDDA) according to a protocol between Middle East Technical University (METU) and GDDA. Many young engineers and scientists have been trained in network operation and evaluation during the course of the project, and an international workshop dealing with strong-motion instrumentation has been organized as part of the project activities.

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Gulkan, P.; Ceken, U.; Colakoglu, Z.; Ugras, T.; Kuru, T.; Apak, A.; Anderson, J. G.; Sucuoglu, H.; Celebi, M.; Akkar, D. S.; Yazgan, U.; Denizlioglu, A. Z.

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Seismological Research Letters

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Enhancement of the national strong-motion network in Turkey; 2007; Article; Journal; Seismological Research Letters; Gulkan, P.; Ceken, U.; Colakoglu, Z.; Ugras, T.; Kuru, T.; Apak, A.; Anderson, J. G.; Sucuoglu, H.; Celebi, M.; Akkar, D. S.; Yazgan, U.; Denizlioglu, A. Z.