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Long‐term seismicity of Istanbul and of the Marmara Sea region
Author(s) -
Ambraseys N.N.,
Finkel C.F.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
terra nova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.353
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1365-3121
pISSN - 0954-4879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3121.1991.tb00188.x
Subject(s) - induced seismicity , geology , period (music) , seismology , term (time) , physics , quantum mechanics , acoustics
We examine the long‐term seismicity of the Marmara Sea region in Turkey over a period of twenty centuries to attempt to answer two questions: (1) how well recorded in history is the earthquake activity of this region? and (2) does seismicity over this long period of time differ from that over the present century? We study this densely‐populated and fast‐developing region because it is one of the most tectonically active regions on the continents that appears today to be relatively quiescent.