Central Anatolia is quiet in terms of seismic activity, and rarely earthquakes up to magnitude occur in the inner part of the Anatolian block or Anatolian platelet. Southeast of Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, two earthquake sequences with maximum magnitude of occurred in 2005 and 2007. | Bala (Ankara) earthquakes: Implications for shallow crustal deformation in Central Anatolian section of the Anatolian platelet (Turkey)