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On 13 March 1992, a moment magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck eastern Turkey. It had a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent) and occurred along the North Anatolian Fault. At least 498 people died, roughly 2,000 were injured, and an unknown number of people went missing.
The 1992 Erzincan earthquake is located between two segments of the NAF that suffered large destructive earthquakes in the past. The 1939 earthquake (Ms=8.2) ruptured 370 km west of Erzincan. The last major earthquake east of the Erzincan Basin occurred in 1784, rupturing a segment of at least 75 km length.
Two most destructive earthquakes have occurred causing significant loss of life and property in the town of Erzincan on 26 December 1939 (Ms 8.2) and 13 March 1992 (Ms 6.8) (Aktar et al....
1 kwi 1997 · A kinematic model of the 1992 Erzincan earthquake combines aftershock field information, neotectonic observations, satellite image interpretation and body-waveform inversion. The complex earthquake rupture starts on the NAF and propagates bilaterally.
1 sty 1992 · In the city of Erzincan, out of a total of 28 000 households, about 8000 (28%) were damaged by the earthquake; of these 1450 (5%) either collapsed or received major structural damage, 2880 (10%) experienced medium (repairable) damage and 3850 (14%) experienced only light damage.
13 mar 1992 · A shallow (15 to 30 km) magnitude (M s) 6.8 earthquake occurred on 13 March 1992 close to Erzincan city in northeast Turkey (Fig. 1). The earthquake caused the deaths of over 500 people together with severe damage to many thousands of properties.
Abstract. —The Erzincan strike-slip earthquake of March 13, 1992 ruptured a section of the North Anatolian fault (NAF) at the northern margin of the Erzincan basin. The focal depth of about 10 km was less than given by ISC and NEIC. Erzincan and the surrounding villages were considerably damaged.
