Turkey7. 5 - 4 km SSE of Ekinözü, Turkey 2023-02-06 10:24:49 (UTC)38.024°N 37.203°E10.0 km depth

 7.5 - 4 km SSE of Ekinözü, Turkey

2023-02-06 10:24:49 (UTC)38.024°N 37.203°E10.0 km profundity

Regulatory RegionEkinözü, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey

4.2 km (2.6 mi) NNWPopulation: 6298

Elbistan, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey

20.3 km (12.6 mi) NPopulation: 80456

Çağlayancerit, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey

31.8 km (19.8 mi) SSEPopulation: 15530

Afşin, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey

35.5 km (22.1 mi) NWPopulation: 39613

Kahramanmaraş, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey

54.5 km (33.9 mi) SSWPopulation: 376045

Structural SummaryTectonic Synopsis

process has created a progression of volcanic frameworks across western Saudi Arabia.

Further north, the Red Ocean Crack ends at the southern limit of the Dead Ocean Change Shortcoming. The Dead Ocean Change is a strike-slip shortcoming that obliges differential movement between the Africa and Arabia plates. However both the Africa plate, toward the west, and the Arabia plate, toward the east, are moving in a NNE heading, the Arabia plate is moving somewhat quicker, bringing about the left-horizontal, strike-slip movement along this section of the plate limit. By and large, tremor action along the Dead Ocean Change has been a critical peril in the thickly populated Levant district (eastern Mediterranean). For instance, the November 1759 Close to East quake is remembered to have killed somewhere close to 2,000-20,000 individuals. The northern end of the Dead Ocean Change happens inside a complex structural district of southeast Turkey, where cooperation of the Africa and Arabia plates and the Anatolia block happens. This includes translational movement of the Anatolia Block westwards, with a speed of roughly 25mm/yr regarding Eurasia, to oblige conclusion of the Mediterranean bowl.

The right-parallel, strike-slip North Anatolia Shortcoming, in northern Turkey, obliges a large part of the westwards movement between the Anatolia Block and Eurasia Plate. Somewhere in the range of 1939 and 1999, a progression of decimating M7.0+ strike-slip quakes spread westwards along the North Anatolia Issue framework. The westernmost of these quakes was the seventeenth August 1999, M7.6 Izmit seismic tremor, close to the Ocean of Marmara, killed roughly 17,000 individuals.

At the southern edge of the Anatolia Block lies the east-west moving Cyprian Curve with related degrees of moderate seismicity. The Cyprian Bend addresses the united limit between the Anatolia Block toward the north and the Africa Plate toward the south. The limit is remembered to join the East Anatolia Shortcoming zone in eastern Turkey; but no specific calculation or feeling of relative movement along the whole limit is broadly accepted.Seismotectonics of the Center East and Area