Near Surface Geophysics and Earthquake Hazards

At a site west of Erzincan (eastern Turkey) Prof Michael Asten (at right) of Monash University stands on the Eurasian geotectonic Plate, while graduate students Fatma Nurten Sisman and Shaghayegh Karimzadeh (at far left) of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, stand on the Anatolian Plate. The North Anatolian Fault dividing the hills underlies the highway and is one of the most earthquake-active plate boundaries on Earth.