Interaction of the faults along the transform fault zones  
Earthquake cluster analysis
Characteristic earthquakes
Source mechanisms and scaling relations

• GONAF A deep Geophysical Observatory at the North Anatolian Fault (ICDP project)
• PIRES A permanent seismic array on the Prince Islands offshore Istanbul Event localization procedure combining array methods and classical approaches
• IZMIT Analysis of 1999 Izmit (NW Turkey) aftershock activity to optimize velocity fields and to get high-resolution seismic structures
• MONEM Seismic Monitoring of the eastern Marmara Sea offshore Istanbul by a temporary OBS network
• MONGAN Differentiation between locked and creeping segments of the Ganos fault

 
 
   2007-2010 University of Potsdam, Ph.D., Geophysics
2003-2006 Bogaziçi University, M.Sc., Geophysics
1996-2001 Marmara University, B.Sc., Electronics
 
 




 

 


 

 
 
Positions held
2007-present GFZ-Potsdam, Deformation and Rheology (Section 3.2)
2003-2007 Bogaziçi University, Department of Geophysics

Visiting experience
2008 (2 weeks) Stanford University, Department of Geophysics
2006 (3 months) GFZ-Potsdam, Deformation and Rheology (Section 3.2)

• F. Bulut and M. Aktar (2007), Accurate relocation of Izmit Earthquake (Mw=7.4, 1999) aftershocks in Çinarcik Basin using Double Difference Method, Geophy. Res. Lett., Vol. 34, L10307, doi:10.1029/2007GL029611

• F. Bulut, M. Bohnhoff, M. Aktar and G. Dresen (2007), Characterization of aftershock-fault plane orientations of 1999 Izmit (Turkey) earthquake using high-resolution aftershock locations, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol.34, L20306, doi:10.1029/2007GL031154

• M. Bohnhoff, F. Bulut, E. Gorgun, C. Milkereit, and G. Dresen (2008), Seismotectonic setting at the North Anatolian Fault Zone after the 1999 Mw = 7.4 Izmit earthquake based on high-resolution aftershock locations, Adv. Geosci. Vol 14, 85–92, 2008

• C. Janssen , M. Bohnhoff, Vapnik Y., Görgün E., Bulut F., Plessen B., Pohl D., Aktar M., Okay A.I., Dresen G., (2009), Tectonic evolution of the Ganos segment of the North Anatolian Fault (NW Turkey), Journal of Structural Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2008.09.010

• F. Bulut, Bohnhoff M., Ellsworth W. L., Aktar M. and Dresen G. (2009), Microseismicity at the North Anatolian Fault in the Sea of Marmara Offshore Istanbul, Journal of Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1029/2008JB006244