Abstract
Series of geologically and seismically active ruptures with amplitudes of vertical and horizontal dislocations from some tens of centimeters up to 2.5 m was studied using the paleoseismological method within mobile folded systems of Northern Eurasia (the Mountain Altai and the north of the Kamchatka region) during the field works for the last decade. The paleoseismological materials have been used to estimate the seismic regime of the specified regions for the major Holocene. Micro- and macroseismic data of strong seismic events of these regions were also used, including the latest strong seismic shocks of 2003 and 2006. The results demonstrate rectilinear recurrence diagrams throughout the whole range of magnitudes in the two regions of Northern Eurasia explored. It means that the seismic regime at the Late Quaternary of the geological history has remained almost unchanged.
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The author is grateful to Prof. P. Varga for his interest to the trenching results in the strong earthquake zones of the Mountain Altai and the Kariak upland. The work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Projects 13-05-91168-a, 14-05-00091a) and by the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Program no. 4).
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Rogozhin, E. Long-term seismic regime reconstruction using paleoseismological data. Acta Geod Geophys 50, 63–77 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40328-014-0086-0
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