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Multi-disciplinary earthquake researches in Western Turkey: Hints to select sites to study geochemical transients associated to seismicity

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Warm and hot spring water as well as soil gas radon release patterns have been monitored in the Aegean Extensional Province of Western Turkey, alongside regional seismic events, providing a multi-disciplinary approach. In the study period of 20 months, seven moderate earthquakes with M L between 4.0 and 4.7 occurred in this seismically very active region; two earthquakes with magnitude 5.0 also occurred near the study area. Seismic monitoring showed no foreshock activity. By contrast, hydro-geochemical anomalies were found prior to these seismic events, each lasting for weeks. The anomalies occurred foremost in conjunction with dip-slip events and seem to support the dilatancy and water diffusion hypothesis. Increased soil gas radon release was recorded before earthquakes associated with strike-slip faults, but no soil radon anomalies were seen before earthquakes associated with dip-slip faults. Geochemical anomalies were also noticeably absent at some springs throughout the postulated deformation zones of impending earthquakes. The reason for this discrepancy might be due to stress/strain anisotropies.

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  1. TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center, Earth and Marine Sciences Institute, Gebze-Kocaeli, Turkey

    Sedat İnan, Cemil Seyis, Furkan Kulak, Aynur Dikbaş, Onur Tan, Semih Ergintav, Rahşan Çakmak, Ahmet Yörük, Muhiddin Çergel, Hakan Yakan & Ruhi Saatçilar

  2. Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Dokuz Eylül University, Tınaztepe, İzmir, Turkey

    Kadriye Ertekin

  3. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Geological Engineering, Hacettepe University, Beytepe-Ankara, Turkey

    Şakir Şimşek & Hüseyin Karakuş

  4. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Geophysical Engineering, Sakarya University, Esentepe, Adapazarı, Turkey

    Ruhi Saatçilar

  5. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Geophysical Engineering, Dokuz Eylül University, Tınaztepe, İzmir, Turkey

    Zafer Akçiğ

  6. General Directorate of Disasters Affairs of Turkey, Department of Earthquake Research, Ankara, Turkey

    Yıldız İravul & Bekir Tüzel

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İnan, S., Ertekin, K., Seyis, C. et al. Multi-disciplinary earthquake researches in Western Turkey: Hints to select sites to study geochemical transients associated to seismicity. Acta Geophys. 58, 767–813 (2010). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11600-010-0016-7

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