Anadolu Sekansı sayfasındaki "1939 öncesi yüklülük" sahnesi için her KAF segmentinin son tarihsel kırılma yılını veren temel kaynaklar: 1668 Büyük Anadolu Depremi, 1719 İzmit, 1766 Mayıs/Ağustos Marmara, 1912 Mürefte–Ganos.
1668 — 600+ km Doğu/Orta KAF — Ambraseys, N.N., Finkel, C.F. (1988). "The Anatolian earthquake of 17 August 1668." Historical Seismograms and Earthquakes of the World, Academic Press, 173–180.
1500–1800 Tarihsel İnceleme — Ambraseys, N.N., Finkel, C.F. (1995). The Seismicity of Turkey and Adjacent Areas: A Historical Review, 1500–1800. Eren Yayıncılık, İstanbul. AHEAD Tarihsel Katalog
Kelkit Vadisi Paleosismolojisi — Zabcı, C., Akyüz, H.S., Sançar, T., et al. (2010). "Palaeoearthquakes on the Kelkit Valley Segment of the North Anatolian Fault, Turkey: Implications for the Surface Rupture of the Historical 17 August 1668 Anatolian Earthquake." Geophysical Research Abstracts, 12, EGU2010-8935. EGU2010 Özet PDF
1944 Bolu–Gerede Kayma Geçmişi — Kondo, H., Kurcer, A., Doğan, A., et al. (2010). "Slip history of the 1944 Bolu–Gerede earthquake rupture along the North Anatolian fault system: Implications for recurrence behavior of multi-segment earthquakes." Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, B04305. DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006413
1912 Mürefte–Ganos Kırılması — Aksoy, M.E., Meghraoui, M., Vallée, M., Çakır, Z. (2010). "Rupture characteristics of the A.D. 1912 Mürefte (Ganos) earthquake segment of the North Anatolian fault (western Turkey)." Geology, 38(11), 991–994. DOI: 10.1130/G31447.1
Marmara Boşluğu Olasılığı — Parsons, T. (2004). "Recalculated probability of M ≥ 7 earthquakes beneath the Sea of Marmara, Turkey." Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, B05304. DOI: 10.1029/2003JB002667
Marmara Boşluğu Sismotektoniği — Bohnhoff, M., Bulut, F., Dresen, G., Malin, P.E., Eken, T., Aktar, M. (2013). "An earthquake gap south of Istanbul." Nature Communications, 4, 1999.