Analyses of the Sea of Marmara based on ... estimating seismic hazard maps for certain regions, rupture directivity, e.g. the preferential direction in which earthquakes radiate their energy ...

However, under the sea is there a seismic gap associated with a giant earthquake. Considering the level of damage caused by the 1999 Izmit earthquake in the neighboring region to the east, the risk in ...

TASS/. A tremor with the magnitude of 5.9 was registered in the Marmara Sea area near Istanbul at 04:08 local time (same as Moscow time), Turkey’s emergency situations department said on Wednesday.