- Aykut Barka
Aykut Barka (
December 16 ,1951 –February 1 ,2002 ) was a Turkish Earth scientist. He is best known for his contributions to understanding the behaviour of theNorth Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ), one of the most dangerous active faults in the world.Biography
He was born in
Fatih district ofIstanbul in 1951. He received hisPhD degree in 1981 from theUniversity of Bristol , UK under the supervision of Dr. P.L. Hancock with a thesis on "Seismotectonic Aspects of the North Anatolian Fault Zone".He worked and studied geosciences in some top rated institutions around the world, including
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris ,École Normale Supérieure Paris ,MIT Earth Resources Laboratory ,Cambridge, MA , University of Bristol, UK andGeological Survey of Japan .In 1997, Barka published a [http://atlas.cc.itu.edu.tr/~barka/pubs/anatolia/anatolia.html paper] with Ross Stein and James H. Dieterich of
USGS , titled "Progressive failure on theNorth Anatolian Fault since 1939 by earthquake stress triggering", which showed the migration of big earthquakes and, not surprisingly, positive stress accumulation in the Marmara Region. Only 2 years after this paper was published, a Magnitude 7.4 earthquake hit the Izmit area in Marmara, killing more than 20,000 people.Aykut Barka died on
February 1 ,2002 from injuries suffered in a car accident five weeks earlier. He left a wife and two young children.ee also
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Earthquake storm References
* Biyografi.TV - [http://www.biyografi.tv/prof._dr._aykut_barka_biyografisi.asp "Biography of Aykut Barka"]
* Who is Who - "Biographies :" [http://www.kimkimdir.gen.tr/kimkimdir.php?id=3243 "Prof. Dr. Aykut Barka"]External links
* [http://atlas.cc.itu.edu.tr/~barka/ Barka's personal home page]
* [http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/research/deformation/modeling/people/barka.html Aykut Barka's personal page at USGS Web Site]
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