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Seismotectonic destruction of the Earth’s crust in the zone of interaction of the northeastern side of the Baikal rift and the Aldan-Stanovoy block

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The paper presents the modern structural-tectonic pattern and a tectonodynamic model of the zone of interaction of the most seismically active northeastern side of the Baikal rift zone (BRZ) and the conjugate system of seismogenic structures of the Aldan-Stanovoy block, where disastrous events with M ≥ 6.0 have been reported. Regularities in the structural formation of active faults and their kinematics are discussed. The faults form block structures accumulating significant tectonic strain. Motions between large tectonic blocks cause sudden release of the strain, which results in catastrophic events (M ≥ 6.0) with focal mechanisms of definite kinematic type.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are thankful to O.P. Smekalin and V.I. Melnikova from the Institute of the Earth’s Crust, RAS for fruitful comments and helpful remarks they made after reading the manuscript and also to E.V. Alekseenko from the Diamond and Precious Metal Geology Institute, RAS for translating the paper into English.

This work was supported by the grant of the Ministry of Education and Sciences of the Russian Federation (State task in the field of scientific activity N 5.1771.2014/K) and by the grant of the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) N 15-17-20000 used for testing the methods of analysis and processing of seismotectonic data.

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    L. P. Imaeva, V. S . Imaev & S. V. Ashurkov

  2. Diamond and Precious Metals Geology Institute, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, 39 Lenin Ave., Yakutsk, 677980, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia

    B. M. Koz’min & V. S . Imaev

  3. Engineering Institute (Branch) of the Northeastern Federal University, 16 Kravchenko St., Neryungri, 678960, Russia

    N. N. Grib & S. V. Ashurkov

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Imaeva, L.P., Koz’min, B.M., Imaev, V.S... et al. Seismotectonic destruction of the Earth’s crust in the zone of interaction of the northeastern side of the Baikal rift and the Aldan-Stanovoy block. J Seismol 21, 385–410 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-016-9607-3

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