FaultLab: News
Planet Earth Article (14/07/14)
FaultLab PhD student Ekbal Hussain has had an article published in the Summer 2014 issue of NERC's Planet Earth Magazine. The article, entitled "Getting ready for the next big one", discusses the seismic hazard threatening Istanbul due to its proximity to the North Anatolian Fault. You can read the article here.
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FaultLab at EGU 2014 (14/07/14)
Work associated with the FaultLab project has been presented at the recent European Geophysical Union General Assembly in Vienna between 27th April and 2nd May:
EGU2014-11223: The Earthquake Loading Cycle and the Deep Structure of the North Anatolian Fault
Tim Wright, David Cornwell, Katie Farrell, Greg Houseman, Ekbal Hussain, Geoffrey Llloyd, Richard Phillips, David Thompson, Sebastian Rost, Tadashi Yamasaki, Niyazi Turkelli, and Levent Gulen
EGU2014-6820: Analysis of the spatial viscosity variation in the crust beneath the western North Anatolian Fault Zone
Tadashi Yamasaki, Gregory Houseman, and Tim Wright
EGU2014-328: A decade of postseismic deformation after the 1999 Izmit and Duzce earthquakes
Ekbal Hussain, Tim Wright, Gregory Houseman, Yamasaki Tadashi, and Walters Richard
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FaultLab at AGU 2013 (10/01/14)
FaultLab participants Greg Houseman, David Cornwell, Niyazi Turkelli and David Thompson were in San Francisco to convene the session T024: New views on strike-slip fault zones. It covered a variety of geographic locations (San Andreas Fault, USA; Alpine Fault, New Zealand; Sumatran strike-slip faulting; North Anatolian Fault Zone to name but a few) and disciplines (geodesy, seismology, structural geology, deep fault drilling, numerical modelling), making for an interesting, stimulating and extremely well attended session. In addition to convening, 2 talks and 2 poster were presented by the FaultLab project:
T22D-06. Seismicity and Crustal Anisotropy Beneath the Western Segment of the North Anatolian Fault: Results from a Dense Seismic Array
Niyazi Turkelli; Ugur Teoman; Selda Altuncu Poyraz; Didem Cambaz; Ahu K. Mutlu; Metin Kahraman; Gregory A. Houseman; Sebastian Rost; David A. Thompson; David G. Cornwell; Murat Utkucu; Levent Gülen
Download Niyazi's talk here.
T22D-07. Imaging the North Anatolian Fault using the scattered teleseismic wavefield
David A. Thompson; Sebastian Rost; Gregory A. Houseman; David G. Cornwell; Niyazi Turkelli; Ugur Teoman; Metin Kahraman; Selda Altuncu Poyraz; Levent Gülen; Murat Utkucu; Andrew W. Frederiksen; Stephane Rondenay
Download Dave's talk here.
T23E-2633. Detailed Northern Anatolian Fault Zone crustal structure from receiver functions
David G. Cornwell; Metin Kahraman; David A. Thompson; Gregory A. Houseman; Sebastian Rost; Niyazi Turkelli; Ugur Teoman; Selda Altuncu Poyraz; Levent Gülen; Murat Utkucu
Download Dave's poster here.
T23E-2634. Weak ductile shear zone beneath the western North Anatolian Fault Zone: inferences from earthquake cycle model constrained by geodetic observations
Tadashi Yamasaki; Tim J. Wright; Gregory A. Houseman
Download Tadashi's poster here.
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FaultLab PhDs present work (10/01/14)
FaultLab PhD students Katie Farrell and Ekbal Hussain have been presenting their work at a number of conferences over the last few months (see below).
Katie was at the annual Tectonic Studies Group (TSG) meeting at Cardiff University (6th-8th January, 2014).
Ekbal attended the Geology for Global Development Conference at the Geological Society, London (23rd October, 2013) and the Living Planet Symposium in Edinburgh (9th-13th September, 2013). You can download his poster from Edinburgh here. Ekbal also wrote an interesting blog about the seismic risk to Istanbul.
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FaultLab research at EGU General Assembly in Vienna (01/05/13)
FaultLab research was presented at the EGU General Assembly 2013 in Vienna.
Seismic data from the DANA experiment, part of the wider FaultLab project, were included in the following presentations:
In session GD2.5/GMPV10/TS9.8: Long-term rheological behavior of the lithosphere inferred from observations and models at laboratory and geological time and spatial scales
David Thompson presented:
FaultLab: Results on the crustal structure of the North Anatolian Fault from a dense seismic network
David Thompson, Sebastian Rost, Greg Houseman, David Cornwell, Niyazi Türkelli, Uğur Teoman, Metin Kahraman, Selda Altuncu Poyraz, Levent Gülen, Murat Utkucu, and Andrew Frederiksen
In session SM4.4/TS9.9: Active seismic investigations of the Earth's crust
Niyazi Turkelli presented:
New Insights on the Crustal Structure beneath the Western Segment of NAF: Preliminary Results from a Dense Seismic Array
Niyazi Turkelli, Selda A. Poyraz, Metin Kahraman, M. Ugur Teoman, Sebastian Rost, Greg A. Houseman, David Thompson, and David Cornwell