TY  - JOUR
A1  - Martinez-Garvon, Patricia
A1  - Bohnhoff, Marco
A1  - Mencin, David
A1  - Kwiatek, Grzegorz
A1  - Dresen, Georg
A1  - Hodgkinson, Kathleen
A1  - Nurlu, Murat
A1  - Kadirioglu, Filiz Tuba
A1  - Kartal, Recai Feyiz
T1  - Slow strain release along the eastern Marmara region offshore Istanbul in conjunction with enhanced local seismic moment release
JF  - Earth & planetary science letters
N2  - We analyze a large transient strainmeter signal recorded at 62.5 m depth along the southern shore of the eastern Sea of Marmara region in northwestern Turkey. This region represents a passage of stress transfer from the Izmit rupture to the Marmara seismic gap. The strain signal was recorded at the Esenkoy site by one of the ICDP-GONAF (International Continental Drilling Programme - Geophysical Observatory at the North Anatolian Fault) strainmeters on the Armutlu peninsula with a maximum amplitude of 5 microstrain and lasting about 50 days. The onset of the strain signal coincided with the origin time of a M-w 4.4 earthquake offshore Yalova, which occurred as part of a seismic sequence including eight M-w >= 3.5 earthquakes. The Mw 4.4 event occurred at a distance of about 30 km from Esenkoy on June 25th 2016 representing the largest earthquake in this region since 2008. Before the event, the maximum horizontal strain was subparallel to the regional maximum horizontal stress derived from stress inversion of local seismicity. During the strain transient, we observe a clockwise rotation in the local horizontal strain field of about 20 degrees. The strain signal does not correlate with known environmental parameters such as annual changes of sea level, rainfall or temperature. The strain signal could indicate local slow slip on the Cinarcik fault and thus a transfer of stress to the eastern Marmara seismic gap.
KW  - strain transient
KW  - slow slip
KW  - transform faults
KW  - seismic hazard
KW  - strainmeter data
KW  - Sea of Marmara
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.01.001
SN  - 0012-821X
SN  - 1385-013X
VL  - 510
SP  - 209
EP  - 218
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -