Fault locking near Istanbul: indication of earthquake potential from InSAR and GPS observations

Faqi Diao,1,2 Thomas R. Walter,1 Giuseppe Solaro,3 Rongjiang Wang,1 Manuela Bonano,3 Mariarosaria Manzo,3 Semih Ergintav,4 Yong Zheng,2 Xiong Xiong2 and Riccardo Lanari3 1GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany. E-mail: faqidiao@whigg.ac.cn 2State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth’s Dynamics, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China 3Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell’ Ambiente (IREA), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Via Diocleziano 328, I-80124 Napoli, Italy 4Department of Geodesy, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Boğaziçi University, 34680 Istanbul, Turkey

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