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Figure 1.
Plate interactions of Arabia-Africa-Eurasia zone (Reilinger et al., 2006).
MICRO-TECTONICS FEATURES OF THE REGION OF INTEREST
The studied region has a high seismic activity due to the extensional regime of the
Aegean Region. Thus Western Anatolia contributes greatly to Turkey's earthquake
activity and neotectonics. Ozmen et al. (1997) produced a seismicity map considering
the data beginning from the instrumental time to present that indicates the different
perspective of western Anatolia than the Turkey's total activity. Figure 2 shows the
seismic risk zones and the study area which is in the high risk-zone I.
There are two main seismic belts within the boundaries of the region. One of them
lies in the CreteRhodes-Fethiye and Burdur direction and the other one is in a direction
along the Simav-Emet-Gediz and Afyon locations. These two belts have the highest
seismicity in the whole Aegean Region (Bagci, 2000; KOERI Earthquake Catalog,
2008). Geodynamic studies show that the Aegean Region needs to be investigated
continuously with different scientifi c techniques. This study is going to subject the
geodetic contribution to regional tectonics with some geodetic optimization tech-
niques using gathered information from different sources. Although the tectonics of
