TY  - JOUR
TI  - Earthquake history of the Yatağan Fault (Muğla, SW Turkey): implications for regional
seismic hazard assessment and paleoseismology in extensional provinces
AB  - The southern part of the Western Anatolia Extensional Province is governed by E-W-trending horst-graben systems and
NW-SE-oriented active faults. The NW-striking Yatağan Fault is characterised by an almost pure normal sense of motion with a minor
dextral strike slip component. Although the settlements within the area have been affected by several earthquake events since ancient
times (~2000 BCE), the earthquake potential and history of the Yatağan Fault has remained unknown until a few years ago. Considering
the growing dense population within the area, paleoseismology studies were conducted in order to illuminate the historical earthquake
activity on the Yatağan Fault. Two trenches were excavated on the fault. Structural and stratigraphic evidence from the both trenches
indicated an event horizon of a paleo-earthquake that was dated between 366 and 160 BCE and 342 ± 131 CE. This event horizon most
probably reflected the evidence of the latest large earthquake rupture on the Yatağan Fault.
AU  - UÇARKUS, GÜLSEN
AU  - Akyüz, Hüsnü Serdar
AU  - KIRKAN, Erdem
AU  - yakupoğlu, nurettin
AU  - Basmenji, Mehran
AU  - AKSOY, Murat Ersen
DO  - 10.3906/yer-2006-23
PY  - 2021
JO  - Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences
VL  - 30
IS  - 2
SN  - 1300-0985
SP  - 161
EP  - 181
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/521440
ER  -