List of Contributors vii
Preface xiii

1 Strike-Slip Tectonics: Introduction 1
lbrahim Çemen and Elizabeth J. Catlos

Part I Major Strike-Slip Fault Zones of the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia

2 Characterizing the Neotectonic Behavior of the Central Sector of the East Anatolian Fault System: Implications for Basin Formation, Slip Rate, and Seismicity (Southeastern Turkey) 27
M. Sefik lmamoglu, Yasar Ergun Gökten, and Gilbert Kelling

3 Tectonic Analyses of the Major Strike-Slip Faults Associated with South-Central Anatolian Earthquakes 49
Yücel Yilmaz, Erdinç Yigitbås, and lbrahim Çemen

4 Spatiotemporal Variations in Earthquake Size Distribution and Density Patterns Along the Southern Dead Sea Transform: Mechanical and Tectonic Implications 71
Matty Sharon, Ittai Kurzon, Shmuel Marco, Amotz Agnon, and Zvi Ben-Avraham

5 Strike-Slip Motion in the Himalayas: Implications for Collisional Dynamics 107
Elizabeth J. Catlos, Peter J. Haproff, Chandra Shekhar Dubey, and Gonmei Zenus Piuthaimei

6 Microplates Related to Diverse Strike-Slip/Transform Faults in the Asian–Pacific Region 149
Sanzhong Li, Yanhui Suo, Lijun Liu, Guangzeng Wang, Pengcheng Wang, Lin Liu, Xianzhi Cao, Jie Zhou, Boran Liu, Jie Liu, Qingbin Guan, Shujuan Zhao, Yuhua Wang, Liangliang Wang, Guozheng Sun, Hao Dong, Liming Dai, Yongjiang Liu, Yang Liu, Suhua Jiang, and Ian Somerville

Part II Seismicity Along Major Strike-Slip Fault Zones

7 Thermal Structure and Rigidity of the Aegean–Anatolian Region: Implications for Seismicity 215
Rezene Mahatsente and lbrahim Çemen

8 The North Anatolian Fault: An Example of the Regularity of "Irregular" Seismic Behavior of Continental Strike-Slip 229
Cengiz Zabci, Erhan Altunel, and H. Serdar Akyüz

9 Strike-Slip Networks in a Compressional Belt: Seismotectonic Implications from the Sikkim Himalayas, Northeastern India 287
Elizabeth J. Catlos and Peter J. Haproff

10 Contextualizing the Herat Fault of Afghanistan in Central Asian Tectonics: Insights from the 2023 Herat Quadruplet Earthquake Sequence 323
Hamid Sana, Robert Zinke, Eric Kirby, and Eric Fielding

Part III Dynamics and Physics-Based Simulations of Earthquakes Along Strike-Slip Fault Zones

11 Fault Slip and Coulomb Stress Model of the 2023 Mw 7.8 and Mw 7.6 Kahramanmaras Earthquake Doublet, Turkey 333
Sui Tung, Christian Sippl, Manoochehr Shirzaei, Tuncay Taymaz, Timothy Masterlark, Irina Medved, and Seok-Jun Kang

12 Tectonic and Dynamic Controls in the 2023 Kahramanmaras and Ekinozu, Turkey, Earthquake Sequence, Illuminated with Physics-Based Simulations 351
Ryosuke Ando, Ali Pinar, Dogan Kalafat, Haluk Ozener, Esref Yalcinkaya, and Yojiro Yamamoto

Index 375