LOCAL SITE CONDITIONS INFLUENCING EARTHQUAKE INTENSITIES AND SECONDARY COLLATERAL IMPACTS IN THE SEA OF MARMARA REGION - Application of Standardized Remote Sensing and GIS-Methods in Detecting Potentially Vulnerable Areas to Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Other Hazards.

The destructive earthquake that struck near the Gulf of Izmit along the North Anatolian fault in Northwest Turkey on August 17, 1999, not only generated a local tsunami that was destructive at Golcuk and other coastal cities in the eastern portion of the enclosed Sea of Marmara, but was also respons...

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Main Authors: George Pararas-Carayannis, Barbara Theilen-Willige, Helmut Wenzel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tsunami Society International 2011-01-01
Series:Science of Tsunami Hazards
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Online Access:http://tsunamisociety.org/301GpcTheilenC.pdf