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Scientific Publications

AFAD Earthquake catalogue: Prime Ministry, Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, Earthquake Department, On-line Catalogue, www.deprem.gov.tr, 2007–present.

2023

Becker, D., Martínez-Garzón, P., Wollin, C., Kılıç, T., & Bohnhoff, M.: Variation of Fault Creep Along the Overdue Istanbul-Marmara Seismic Gap in NW Türkiye. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(6), e2022GL101471, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101471, 2023.

Martínez-Garzón, P., Beroza, G. C., Bocchini, G. M., & Bohnhoff, M.: Sea level changes affect seismicity rates in a hydrothermal system near Istanbul. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL101258, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101258, 2023.

2022

Bocchini, G. M., Martínez-Garzón, P., Verdecchia, A., Harrington, R. M., Bohnhoff, M., Turkmen, T., & Nurlu, M.: Direct Evidence of a Slow-Slip Transient Modulating the Spatiotemporal and Frequency-Magnitude Earthquake Distribution: Insights From the Armutlu Peninsula, Northwestern Turkey. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(18), e2022GL099077, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099077, 2022.

Durand, V., Gualandi, A., Ergintav, S., Kwiatek, G., Haghshenas, M., Motagh, M., Dresen, G. and Martínez-Garzón, P.: Deciphering aseismic deformation along submarine fault branches below the eastern Sea of Marmara (Turkey): Insights from seismicity, strainmeter, and GNSS data. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 594, 117702, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117702, 2022.

2021

Gholamrezaie, E., Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Cacace, M., Bott [Sippel], J., Heidbach, O., Bohnhoff, M., Strecker, M. R.: Lithospheric strength variations and seismotectonic segmentation below the Sea of Marmara. - Tectonophysics, 815, 228999, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.228999, 2021.

Bohnhoff, M.: Future Challenges in Continental Scientific Drilling, Journal of the Geological Society of India, Vol. 97, Sept. 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-021-1810-3, 2021.

Martínez Garzón, P., Durand, V., Bentz, S., Kwiatek, G., Dresen, G., Turkmen, T., Nurlu, M., Bohnhoff, M.: Near-Fault Monitoring Reveals Combined Seismic and Slow Activation of a Fault Branch within the Istanbul–Marmara Seismic Gap in Northwest Turkey. - Seismological Research Letters, 92, 6, 3743-3756, https://doi.org/10.1785/0220210047, 2021.

Bocchini, G. M., Martínez Garzón, P., Harrington, R. M., Bohnhoff, M.: Does Deep Tectonic Tremor Occur in the Central‐Eastern Mediterranean Basin? - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, 1, 2020JB020448, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020448, 2021.

2020

Jenkins, J., Stephenson, S. N., Martínez Garzón, P., Bohnhoff, M., Nurlu, M.: Crustal Thickness Variation Across the Sea of Marmara Region, NW Turkey: A Reflection of Modern and Ancient Tectonic Processes. - Tectonics, 39, 7, e2019TC005986, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019TC005986, 2020.

Bohnhoff, M., Malin, P. E.: Borehole Seismic Networks and Arrays. - In: Gupta, H. K. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics, (Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series), Cham : Springer International Publishing, 1-9, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10475-7_268-1, 2020.

Kılıç, T., Kartal, R. F., Kadirioğlu, F. T., Bohnhoff, M., Nurlu, M., Acarel, D., Martinez Garzon, P., Dresen, G., Özsarac, V., Malin, P. E.: Geophysical Borehole Observatory at the North Anatolian Fault in the Eastern Sea of Marmara (GONAF): initial results. - Journal of Seismology, 24, 2, 375-395. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-020-09907-6, 2020.

Martínez Garzón, P., Heidbach, O., Bohnhoff, M.: Contemporary stress and strain field in the Mediterranean from stress inversion of focal mechanisms and GPS data. - Tectonophysics, 774, 228286, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.228286, 2020.

2019

Martínez Garzón, P., Ben-Zion, Y., Zaliapin, I., Bohnhoff, M.: Seismic clustering in the Sea of Marmara: Implications for monitoring earthquake processes. Tectonophysics, 768, 228176, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.228176linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0040195119302835, 2019.

Wollin, C.: A unified seismicity catalogue for the Sea of Marmara Region, Turkey, and subsequent studies regarding repeating earthquakes and the local stress field, PhD Thesis, Berlin : Freie Universität, 160 p, https://doi.org/10.17169/refubium-1952, 2019.

Martínez Garzón, P., Bohnhoff, M., Mencin, D., Kwiatek, G., Dresen, G., Hodgkinson, K., Nurlu, M., Kadirioglu, F. T., Kartal, R. F.: Slow strain release along the eastern Marmara region offshore Istanbul in conjunction with enhanced local seismic moment release. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 510, 209-218, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.01.001www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X19300093?via%3Dihub, 2019.

Wollin, C., Bohnhoff, M., Vavryčuk, V., Martínez Garzón, P.: Stress Inversion of Regional Seismicity in the Sea of Marmara Region, Turkey. - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 176, 3, 1269-1291, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-018-1971-1, 2019.

2018

Wollin, C., Bohnhoff, M., Martínez Garzón, P., Küperkoch, L., & Raub, C.: A unified earthquake catalogue for the Sea of Marmara Region, Turkey, based on automatized phase picking and travel-time inversion: seismotectonic implications. Tectonophysics, 747-748, 416-444, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2018.05.020, 2018.

Malin, P. E., Bohnhoff, M., Blümle, F., Dresen, G., Martínez Garzón, P., Nurlu, M., Ceken, U., Kadirioglu, F. T., Kartal, R. F., Kiliç, T., & Yanik, K.: Microearthquakes preceding a M4.2 Earthquake Offshore Istanbul. Scientific Reports, 8, 16176, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34563-9, 2018.

2017

Bohnhoff, M., Wollin, C., Domigall, D., Küperkoch, L., Martínez-Garzón, P., Kwiatek, G., Dresen, G., Malin, P. E.: Repeating Marmara Sea Earthquakes: Indication for fault creep. Geophysical Journal Internationalhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx169, 2017b.

Bohnhoff, M., Dresen, G., Ceken, U., Kadirioglu, F. T., Kartal, R. F., Kiliç, T., Nurlu, M., Yanik, K., Acarel, D., Bulut, F., Ito, H., Johnson, W., Malin, P. E., and Mencin, D.: GONAF – the borehole Geophysical Observatory at the North Anatolian Fault in the eastern Sea of Marmara, Sci. Dril., 22, 19-28, https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-22-19-2017, 2017a.

2016

Bohnhoff, M., Ickrath, M., and Dresen, G.: Seismicity distribution in conjunction with spatiotemporal variations of coseismic slip and postseismic creep along the combined 1999 Izmit-Düzce rupture, Tectonophysics, 686, 132–145, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.07.029, 2016b.

Raub, C., Bohnhoff, M., Petrovic, B., Parolai, S., Malin, P. E., Yanik, K., Kartal, R. F., and Kiliç, T.: Seismic wave propagation in shallow layers at the GONAF-Tuzla site, Istanbul, Turkey, B. Seismol. Soc. Am., 106, 912–927, https://doi.org/10.1785/0120150216, 2016.

Bohnhoff, M., Martínez-Garzón, P., Bulut, F., Stierle, E., and Ben-Zion, Y.: Maximum earthquake magnitudes along different sections of the North Anatolian fault zone, Tectonophysics, 674, 147– 165, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.02.028, 2016a.

2015

Martínez-Garzón, P., Bohnhoff, M., Ben-Zion, Y., Dresen, G.: Scaling of maximum observed magnitudes with geometrical and stress properties of strike-slip faults, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2015GL066478, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL066478, 2015.

Ickrath, M., Bohnhoff, M., Dresen, Martínez-Garzón, P., G., Bulut, F., Kwiatek., G. and Germer, O.: Detailed analysis of spatiotemporal variations of the stress field orientation along the Izmit-Düzce rupture in NW Turkey from inversion of first motion polarity data.  Geophys. J. Int., 202(3), 2120–2132, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv273, 2015.

Prevedel, B., Bulut, F., Bohnhoff, M., Raub, C., Kartal, R. F., Alver, F., and Malin, P. E.: Downhole Geophysical Observatories: Best Installation Practices and a Case History from Turkey, Int. J. Earth Sci. (Geol. Rundsch.), 104, 1537–1547, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-015-1147-5, 2015.

 

2013

Bohnhoff, M., Bulut, F., Dresen, G., Malin, P. E., Eken, T., and Aktar, M.: An earthquake gap south of Istanbul, Nature Commun., 4, 1999, https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2999, 2013.

2011

Bulut, F., Ellsworth, W. L., Bohnhoff, M., Aktar, M., and Dresen, G.: Spatiotemporal Earthquake Clusters along the North Anatolian Fault Zone Offshore Istanbul, B. Seismol. Soc. Am., 101, 1759– 1768, https://doi.org/10.1785/0120100215, 2011.

Bohnhoff, M., Bulut, F., Aktar, M., Dresen, G.: Das Erdbebenrisiko einer Megacity: Seismische Überwachung der Nordanatolischen Verwerfungszone vor Istanbul durch ein Seismometernetz auf den Prinzeninseln, System Erde: GFZ Journal, Deutsches GeoForschungs Zentrum, Potsdam, https://doi.org/10.2312/GFZ.syserde.01.01.1, 2011.

2010

Bohnhoff, M., Dresen, G., Ellsworth, W.L., Ito, H.: Passive Seismic Monitoring of Natural and Induced Earthquakes: Case Studies, Future Directions ans Socio-Economic Relevance. In: S. Cloetingh, J. Negendank (eds.), New Frontiers in Integrated Solid Earth Sciences, International Year of Planet Earth, Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2737-5_7, 2010b.

Bohnhoff, M., Dresen, G., Aktar, M., Bulut, F., Eyidogan, H., and Ito, H.: GONAF: A deep Geophysical Observatory, Full Proposal to the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), 2010a.

Görgün, E., Bohnhoff, M., Bulut, F., Dresen, G.: Seismotectonic setting of the Karadere−Düzce branch of the North Anatolian Fault Zone between the 1999 Izmit and Düzce ruptures from analysis of Izmit aftershock focal mechanisms. Tectonophysics, 482, 170-181, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2009.07.012, 2010.

2009

Görgün, E., Zang, A., Bohnhoff, M., Milkereit, C., Dresen, G.: Analysis of Izmit aftershocks 25 days before the November 12th 1999 Düzce earthquake, Turkey. Tectonophysics, 474, 507-515, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2009.04.027, 2009.

Bulut, F., Bohnhoff, M., Ellsworth, W. L., Aktar, M., and Dresen, D.: Microseismicity at the North Anatolian Fault in the Sea of Marmara offshore of Istanbul, NW Turkey, J. Geophys. Res., 114, 1– 16, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JB006244, 2009.

Janssen, C., Bohnhoff, M., Vapnik, Y , Görgün, E., Bulut, F., Plessen, B., Pohl, D., Okay, A.I., Dresen, G.: Tectonic evolution of the Ganos segment of the North Anatolian Fault (NW Turkey) deduced from multidisciplinary investigations. J. Struct. Geol., 31, 11-28, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2008.09.010, 2009.

2008

Dresen, G., Bohnhoff, M., Aktar, M., and Eyidogan, H.: Drilling the North Anatolian Fault, Sci. Dril., 6, 58–59, https://doi.org/10.2204/iodp.sd.6.10.2008, 2008.

Bohnhoff, M., Bulut, F., Görgün, E., Milkereit, C., Dresen, G.: Seismotectonic setting at the North Anatolian Fault Zone after the 1999 Mw=7.4 Izmit earthquake based on high-resolution aftershock locations. Adv. Geosc., 14, 85-92, https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-14-85-2008, 2008.

2006

Bohnhoff, M., Grosser, H., Dresen, G.: Strain partitioning and stress rotation at the North Anatolian Fault after the 1999 Izmit Mw=7.4 earthquake. Geophys. J. Int., 166, 373-385, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03027.x, 2006.

Data publications

 

Martínez-Garzón, P., Durand, V., Kwiatek, G., Bohnhoff, M., Georg, D., Turkmen, T., Nurlu, M.: Seismicity catalog for the Armutlu Peninsula from 2019 derived using the SMARTnet temporary seismic network. V. 1. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.4.2.2021.004, 2021.

Bentz, S., Kwiatek, G., Durand, V., Wollin, C., Bohnhoff, M., Martínez Garzón, P.: Earthquake catalog derived from Template Matching related to "A two-scale preparation phase preceded a Mw 5.8 Earthquake in the Sea of Marmara offshore Istanbul, Turkey". https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.4.2.2020.006, 2020.