Iliill United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization International Centre for Theoretical Physics International Atomic Energy Agency H4.SMR/1645-16 "2nd Workshop on Earthquake Engineering for Nuclear Facilities: Uncertainties in Seismic Hazard" 14 - 25 February 2005 Active faulting and natural hazards in Aremenia, eastern Turkey and northwestern Iran A. S. Karakhanian Georisk Scientific Research Company Yerevan, Armenia Strada Costiera I I, 34014 Trieste, Italy - Tel. +39 040 2240 I I I; Fax +39 040 224 163 -
[email protected], www.ictp.it Available online at www.sciencedirect.com SCIENCE/^DIBECT. TECTONOPHYSICS ELSEVIER Tectonophysics 380 (2004) 189-219 =^^^^== www.elsevier.com/locate/tecto Active faulting and natural hazards in Armenia, eastern Turkey and northwestern Iran Arkady S. Karakhaniana'*, Vladimir G. Trifonovb, Herve Philip0, Ara Avagyana, Khaled Hessamid, Farshad Jamalie, M. Salih Bayraktutanf, H. Bagdassariana, S. Arakeliana, V. Davtiana, A. Adilkhanyana *GEORISK Scientific Research Company, 24a Baghramian Avenue, Yerevan 375019, Armenia b Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 7 Pyzhevsky, Moscow 109017, Russia cLaboratory of Geophysics, Tectonics and Sedimentology, UMR 5573, Montpellier-2 University, France A International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Tehran, Iran "MOSHANIR Power Engineering Consultants, P.O. Box 19395-4691, Tehran, Iran fAtaturk University, Erzerum, Turkey Received 26 April 2002; accepted 28 September 2003 Abstract Active fault zones of Armenia,