“…Although the EAF has been less seismically active than that around the NAF since instrumental-based catalogues started (e.g., Ambraseys, 1989), the EAF has hosted magnitude M 7+ earthquakes in the past, for example, an M 7.1 1893 in Çelikhan, M 7.4 1513 in Pazarcık, and an M 7.5 in 1822 to the east of Hassa (Ambraseys, 1989;Ambraseys & Jackson, 1998;Duman & Emre, 2013). Most recently, in 2020, a moment magnitude M W 6.8 Doğanyol-Sivrice earthquake broke the region east of the 1893 M 7.1 earthquake (Melgar et al, 2020;Pousse-Beltran et al, 2020;Ragon et al, 2021;Taymaz et al, 2021), located to the north-east of the 2023 earthquakes focused in this study. The EAF is recognized to have multiple geometrically segmented faults and a series of bends, step-overs, and sub-parallel faults, leading to complex fault networks (Fig.…”