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Remote sensing plays a critical role in seismotectonics monitoring of active fault systems. In quest of finding the main geophysical parameters to be surveyed by geospatial and in situ measurements in an integrated monitoring system, this study is focused on the analysis of some earthquake activities recorded in the study area. Specific precursors can be reliably detected using satellite sensors through the capability of thermal remote sensing in the identification of seismically active areas. The behaviour of Land Surface Temperature (LST) is characterized by changes before earthquakes. The objective of this study is to find the relationship between earthquake active areas and thermal properties of earth surface. To this end, LST of MODIS sensor on Terra platform and Sentinel 3 images and some earthquake events from USGS and SRI Catalogues have been used as the material of the study. The study has found that the areas characterized by higher LST for long period have more seismic activity most probably represent major faults.
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