High-resolution seismicity imaging and early aftershock migration of the 2023 Kahramanmaras (SE Turkiye) MW7.9 & 7.8 earthquake doublet

We build a high-resolution early aftershock catalog for the 2023 SE Turkiye seismic sequence with PALM, a seamless workflow that sequentially performs phase picking, association, location, and matched filter for continuous data. The catalog contains 29,519 well-located events in the two mainshocks rupture region during 2023-02-01-2023-02-28, which significantly improves the detection completeness and relocation precision compared to the public routine catalog. Employing the new PALM catalog, we analyze the structure of the seismogenic fault system. We find that the Eastern Anatolian Fault (EAF) that generated the first M(W)7.9 mainshock is overall near-vertical, whereas complexities are revealed in a small-scale, such as subparallel subfaults, unmapped branches, and stepovers. The seismicity on EAF is shallow (<15 km) and concentrated in depth distribution, indicating a clear lock-creep transition. In contrast, the Surgu Fault (SF) that is responsible for the second M(W)7.8 mainshock is shovel-shaped for the nucleation segment and has overall low dip angles (similar to 40 degrees-80 degrees). Aftershocks on the SF distribute in a broad range of depth, extending down to similar to 35 km. We also analyze the temporal behavior of seismicity, discovering no immediate foreshocks within similar to 5 days preceding the first mainshock, and no seismic activity on the SF before the second mainshock.