The 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, Earthquake Sequence

The authors would like to thank USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, Geologic Hazards Science Center, and the National Earthquake Information Center staff who contributed modeling results, image processing, and advise on the development of this StoryMap. The Coulomb stress modeling analysis follows the approaches outlined in Toda et al. (2011), Herman & Govers (2020), and references therein.

Emre, Ö., Duman, T.Y., Özalp, S., Saroğlu, F., Olgun, Ş., Elmaci, H., and Çan, T. (2018).  Active fault database of Turkey , Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 16, 3229-3275.

Herman MW, Govers R (2020) Locating Fully Locked Asperities Along the South America Subduction Megathrust: A New Physical Interseismic Inversion Approach in a Bayesian Framework. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 21(8):e2020GC009063.  https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009063 

Reitman, Nadine G., Richard W. Briggs, William D. Barnhart, Jessica A. Thompson Jobe, Christopher B. DuRoss, Alexandra E. Hatem, Ryan D. Gold, and John D. Mejstrik (2023)  Preliminary fault rupture mapping of the 2023 M7.8 and M7.5 Türkiye Earthquakes .

Toda, Shinji, Stein, R.S., Sevilgen, Volkan, and Lin, Jian, 2011, Coulomb 3.3 Graphic-rich deformation and stress-change software for earthquake, tectonic, and volcano research and teaching—user guide: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011–1060, 63 p., available at  https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1060/. 

The observations and illustrations included in this StoryMap are intended to improve earthquake hazard awareness and preparedness; however, they do not guarantee the safety of an individual or structure. The contributors and sponsors of this product do not assume liability for any injury, death, property damage, or other effects of the earthquake.