Enhancement of the national strong-motion network in Turkey

Seismological Research Letters
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Abstract

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 monitors potential large normal-faulting earthquakes on the faults in the valley.

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Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Enhancement of the national strong-motion network in Turkey
Series title Seismological Research Letters
DOI 10.1785/gssrl.78.4.429
Volume 78
Issue 4
Year Published 2007
Language English
Publisher Seismological Society of America
Description 10 p.
First page 429
Last page 438
Country Turkey
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