The present day stress states in the Marmara region

In this study, for the analysis of high quality fault plane solutions, data from stations of KOERI and the TURDEP project in the Marmara Region was merged. Data from a total of 105 stations, including 5 continuous SBO stations of KOERI was used. The earthquakes were selected with the following criteria; minimum local magnitude of 2.0, number of minimum P-wave first motion polarity of 10 and toleration of maximum misfit of 1. During the study 85, 75, 73, 102, and 63 source mechanisms were determined in Ganos Offshore, Tekirdağ Basin, Çınarcık Basin, Yalova Region and Gemlik Region, respectively. Through the determination of 9226 high quality P-wave first motion polarities for the selected 398 earthquakes, the number of average polarity per earthquake was 23. Average error depth, latitude, longitude, and GAP values were also obtained as 2.75 km, 0.98 km, 1.25 km and 63?, respectively. Furthermore, using the algorithm of Horiuchi et al., (1995), simultaneous focal mechanism solutions of individual earthquakes and recent stress regimes along with R-values have been determined for the five clusters. As a result, it was found out that NW-SE trending trans-tensional stress structures leading mostly normal and oblique faulting systems are predominant in Tekirdağ Basin, Çınarcık Basin, Yalova and Gemlik clusters. Nevertheless, Ganos Cluster was presented as a dextral strike-slip deformation system through the transition from normal to reverse faulting system. Vertically oriented Sigma-2 axis was obtained for the Ganos Offshore cluster, whereas in all other regions Sigma-1 axis was vertical.