Figure 1. The April 23 magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck along the central portion of the Marmara Fault, which was also the site of large shocks in 1509 and May and August 1766. The recent event is surrounded by ruptures of large shocks in 1912 (Aksoy, 2021) and 1999 (Parsons, 2004). Credit: Temblor, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0