Fig. 3

Along strike variation in fault parameters. The variation in fault slip rate (b) and locking depth (c) along strike of the North Anatolian Fault (NAF) at the locations indicated by the black circles in a. The error bars represent the 68% confidence bound on the parameter estimates. The solid circles are results from profiles that are in the high confidence polygons indicated in Fig. 1c, while the open circles are profiles that are in areas where only ascending or descending data are available. The slip rates are consistent with a constant locking depth of 16 ± 4 km along the entire fault (Supplementary Fig. 9). The purple lines in b are the slip rate estimates from GNSS alone (Supplementary Fig. 10). We use the slip rate and locking depth estimates to calculate the strain rate along the fault (d), as described in the text. e The surface coseismic slip distributions of major earthquakes (Mw > 6.5) along the NAF since 1939^{19, 62, 63}