The Çınarcık Basin is a submarine
tectonic basin located in the
Sea of Marmara, in Turkey.
Geography
The Çınarcık basin gets its name from
Çınarcık
Çınarcık is a town in Yalova Province in the Marmara region of Turkey. It is the seat of Çınarcık District. , a town and district of the
Yalova Province
Yalova Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province in northwestern Turkey, on the eastern coast of the Sea of Marmara. Its adjacent provinces are Bursa Province, Bursa to the south and Kocaeli Province, Kocaeli to the east. Its area is 798 ...
in the Marmara region of Turkey. It is the easternmost of the three basins which run in direction EW in the sea, the other two being (from E to W) the central basin and the TekirdaÄŸ basin.
Its maximum depth amounts to 1,276 m.
Geology
The Çınarcık Basin is a
transtensional basin which runs along the
Princes' Islands segment of the northern branch of the
North Anatolian Fault (NAF).
However, in correspondence with the basin there is no evidence of a single
strike-slip Fault, neither is visible a cross-basin fault or a pure strike-slip fault in correspondence of the northern margin;
along the southern and northern edges seismic imaging shows many deep-penetrating faults.
The basin hosted the nucleation points of many among the strongest
earthquake
An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity, from those so weak they ...
s of the region, like those
of 1509 and
of 1766, and is expected to host the
epicenter of the next large earthquake that will hit Istanbul.
Notes
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Sea of Marmara