CONTENTS List of Contributors vii Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv 1 Strike-Slip Tectonics: Introduction to Major Fault Zones in the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia ibrahim Çemen and Elizabeth J Catlos 1 Part I: Tectonic Processes Along Major Strike-Slip Fault Zones 25 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) M. Sefik imamoglu, Yasar Ergun Gökten, and Gilbert Kelling 27 3 Tectonic Analyses of the Major Strike-Slip Faults Associated with South-Central Anatolian Earthquakes Yücel Yilmaz, Erdinç Yigitbas, and ibrahim Çemen 49 4 Spatiotemporal Variations in Earthquake Size Distribution and Density Patterns Along the Southern Dead Sea Transform: Mechanical and Tectonic Implications Matty Sharon, Ittai Kurzon, Shmuel Marco, Amotz Agnon, and Zvi Ben-Avraham 69 5 Strike-Slip Motion in the Himalayas: Implications for Collisional Dynamics Elizabeth J. Catlos, Peter J. Haproff, Chandra Shekhar Dubey, and Gonmei Zenus Piuthaimei 105 6 Microplates Related to Diverse Strike-Slip/Transform Faults in the Asia-Pacific Region 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 147 Part II: Seismicity Along Major Strike-Slip Fault Zones 211 7 Thermal Structure and Rigidity of the Aegean-Anatolian Region: Implications for Seismicity Rezene Mahatsente and ibrahim Çemen 13 8 The North Anatolian Fault: An Example of the Regularity of "Irregular" Seismic Behavior of Continental Strike-Slip Faults Cengiz Zabci, Erhan Altunel, and H. Serdar Akyüz 227 9 Strike-Slip Networks in a Compressional Belt: Seismotectonic Implications from the Sikkim Himalayas, Northeastern India Elizabeth J. Catlos and Peter Haproff 285 10 Contextualizing the Herat Fault of Afghanistan in Central Asian Tectonics: Insights from the 2023 Herat Quadruplet Earthquake Sequence Hamid Sana, Robert Zinke, Eric Kirby, and Eric Fielding 321 Part III: Dynamics and Physics-Based Simulations of Earthquakes Along Strike-Slip Fault Zones 329 11 Fault Slip and Coulomb Stress Model of the 2023 Mw 7.8 and Mw 7.6 Kahramanmaras Earthquake Doublet, Turkey Sui Tung, Christian Sippl, Manoochehr Shirzaei, Tuncay Taymaz, Timothy Masterlark, Irina Medved, and Seok-Jun Kang 331 12 Tectonic and Dynamic Controls in the 2023 Kahramanmaras and Ekinozu, Turkey, Earthquake Sequence, Illuminated with Physics-Based Simulations Ryosuke Ando, Ali Pinar, Dogan Kalafat, Haluk Ozener, Esref Yalcinkaya, and Yojiro Yamamoto 349 Index 000.