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Valoroso et al. (2014) speculated that coseismic deformation is concentrated along the main fault plane and is responsible for producing the observed damage zone structure.

This main fault plane and the secondary structural elements were generated by a continental-continental collision taking place in a region located 200 km north of the the Bitlis-Zagros Suture Zone.

Recently, Valoroso et al. (2014) used high-resolution earthquake distributions to argue that during the coseismic phase of the seismic cycle, most of an earthquake's energy, which produces the damage zone, is concentrated along the main fault plane.

The main faulting plane of the entire faulting process could be located under the surface, while the surface ruptures continue east of the study area.

Therefore, an extensive stress shadow should have been generated on the main shock fault plane.

The hypocenters are located close to the respective parts of the main shock fault plane (Fig. 1).   2.

The Van earthquake was a result of the rupturing of a main thrust fault plane in the NE direction and with a 58°NW dip.

Thus, the main shock fault plane was divided into two parts: the 16-km-long western part and the 24-km-long eastern part.

The majority of the aftershocks occurred on the overlapping northern block and on or around the main thrust fault plane (Fig. 10).

The 23 October, 2011, Van earthquake occurred on a main thrust fault plane trending NE-SW between Lake Van and Lake Erçek located in the East Anatolian compressional province.

We then evaluated the static stress changes on the main shock fault plane that were due to the occurrence of the three foreshocks, assuming elliptical cracks with constant stress drops on the estimated fault planes.