Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Possible Role of Cosmophysical Factors in the Occurrence of Rockbursts and Earthquakes

  • Published:
Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics Aims and scope

Abstract

A database of more than 700 rockburst events in the mines of Russian North is analyzed over the period 1947–2004 to determine the possible role of cosmophysical factors in the occurrence of rockbursts. The analysis reveals similarity between the seasonal distributions of rockbursts and geomagnetic disturbances in the auroral zone. A 22-year periodicity in the occurrence of rockbursts and natural earthquakes that is likely of extraterrestrial origin is observed. Possible reasons for the occurrence of rockbursts and their relations to cosmophysical factors are discussed.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 3.

Similar content being viewed by others

REFERENCES

  1. Adushkin, V.V., Izv., Phys. Solid Earth, 2016, vol. 52, p. 173.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Song, D., He, X., Wang, E., et al., Rockburst Evolutionary Process and Energy Dissipation Characteristics, Singapore: Springer, 2020.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  3. Lomov, M.A., Konstantinov, A.V., and Tereshkin, A.A., Probl. Nedropol’z., 2019, no. 4, p. 83.

  4. Cai, M., J. Rock Mech. Geotech. Eng., 2016, vol. 8, p. 204.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Ghasemi, E., Gholizadeh, H., and Adoko, A.C., Eng. Comput., 2020, vol. 36, p. 213.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Pu, Y., Apel, D.B., Liu, V., and Mitri, H., Int. J. Min. Sci. Technol., 2019, vol. 29, p. 565.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Sistematicheskoe opisanie gornykh udarov na shakhtakh SSSR (Systematic Description of Rock Bursts in the Mines of the USSR), Leningrad: VNIMI, 1967.

  8. Katalog gornykh udarov na shakhtakh SSSR (Catalog of Rock Bursts in the Mines of the USSR), Leningrad: VNIMI, 1973.

  9. Katalog gornykh udarov na rudnykh i nerudnykh mestorozhdeniyakh. Severoural’skii boksitovyi rudnik (Catalog of Rock Bursts on Ore and Industrial Mineral Deposits: Severouralsk Bauxite Mine), Leningrad: VNIMI, 1985.

  10. Katalog gornykh udarov na rudnykh i nerudnykh mestorozhdeniyakh. Tashtagol’soe, Krivorozhskoe, Oktyabr’skoe (Noril’sk), Kukisvumchorrskoe (p.o. “Apatit”) i dr. mestorozhdeniya (Catalog of Rock Bursts on Ore and Industrial Mineral Deposits: Tashtagol, Krivoi Rog, Oktyabr’skoe (Norilsk), Kukisvumchorr (Apatit Company), and Other Deposits), Leningrad: VNIMI, 1986.

  11. Katalog gornykh udarov na rudnykh i nerudnykh mestorozhdeniyakh. Severo-Ural’skoe, Tashtagol’skoe, Oktyabr’skoe (Noril’sk), Yuksporskoe, kukmsvumchorrskoe (p.o. “Apatit”), Kachkarskoe i dr. mestorozhdeniya (Catalog of Rock Bursts on Ore and Industrial Mineral Deposits: Tashtagol, Oktyabr’skoe (Norilsk), Yukspor, Kukisvumchorr (Apatit Company), Kochkar, and Other Deposits), Leningrad: VNIMI, 1989.

  12. Lovchikov, A.V., Vestn. Mosk. Gos. Tekh. Univ. im. N.E. Baumana, Ser. Estestv. Nauki, 2008, vol. 11, p. 385.

    Google Scholar 

  13. Thomson, D.J., IEEE Proc., 1982, vol. 70, p. 1055.

  14. Belov, N.I., Kompleksnaya razrabotka rudnykh mestorozhdenii i voprosy geomekhaniki v slozhnykh i osobo slozhnykh usloviyakh (Integrated Development of Ore Deposits and Issues of Geomechanics under Difficult and Especially Difficult Conditions), Apatity: Kolsk. Nauchn. Tsentr, Ross. Akad. Nauk, 1995, p. 63.

  15. Yakovlev, D.V., Tarasov, B.G., and Tsirel’, S.V., Gorn. Inf.-Anal. Byull., 2002, no. 5, p. 175.

  16. Shumilov, O.I., Kasatkina, E.A., and Morner, N.-A., in Earthquake Prediction, Leiden: The Brill Academic, 2006, p. 53.

    Google Scholar 

  17. Tarasov, B.G., Olovyannyi, A.G., and Bugaenko, L.V., Zap. Gorn. Inst., 2010, vol. 188, p. 183.

    Google Scholar 

  18. Zhirova, A.M. and Zhirov, D.V., Gorn. Inf.-Anal. Byull., 2015, no. S56, p. 254.

  19. Oparin, V.N., Bagaev, S.N., Malovichko, L.A., et al., Metody i sistemy seismodeformatsionnogo monitoringa tekhnogennykh zemletryasenii i gornykh udarov (Methods and Systems for Seismic Deformation Monitoring of Technogenic Earthquakes and Rock Bursts), Novosibirsk: Sib. Otd. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2010, vol. 2.

  20. Beer, J., McCracken, K., and von Steiger, R., Cosmogenic Radionuclides: Theory and Applications in the Terrestrial and Space Environments, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  21. Kozyrev, A.A., Mal’tsev, V.A., Panin, V.I., and Rybin, V.V., Gorn. Zhurn., 1998, no. 4, p. 47.

  22. Bashkirtsev, V.S. and Mashnich, G.P., Geomagn. Aeron., 2003, vol. 43, p. 132.

    Google Scholar 

  23. Baliunas, S., Frick, P., Sokoloff, D., and Soon, W., Geophys. Rev. Lett., 1997, vol. 24, p. 1351.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  24. Kasatkina, E.A., Shumilov, O.I., and Kanat’ev, A.G., Meteorol. Gidrol., 2006, no. 1, p. 55.

  25. Rigozo, N.R., Nordemann, D.J.R., Echer, E., et al., Adv. Space Res., 2002, vol. 29, p. 1985.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  26. Kasatkina, E.A., Shumilov, O.I., and Krapiec, M., Adv. Geosci., 2007, vol. 13, p. 25.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  27. Velasco, V.M. and Mendoza, B., Adv. Space Res., 2008, vol. 42, p. 866.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  28. Shumilov, O.I., Kasatkina, E.A., Mielikainen, K., et al., Int. J. Environ. Res., 2011, vol. 5, p. 855.

    Google Scholar 

  29. Kasatkina, E.A., Shumilov, O.I., and Timonen, M., J. Atmos. Sol.-Terr. Phys., 2019, vol. 193, 105075.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  30. Russel, C.T. and McPherron, R.L., J. Geophys. Res., 1973, vol. 78, p. 92.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  31. Landgraf, M., Krüger, H., Altobelli, N., and Grün, E., J. Geophys. Res.: Space Phys., 2003, vol. 108, 8030.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  32. Frisch, P.C., Am. Sci., 2000, vol. 88, p. 52.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  33. Gul’el’mi, A.V. and Troitskaya, V.A., Geomagnitnye pul’satsii i diagnostika magnitosfery (Geomagnetic Pulsations and Diagnostics of the Magnetosphere), Moscow: Nauka, 1973.

  34. Shem’i-zade, A.E., Biofizika, 1992, vol. 37, p. 690.

    Google Scholar 

  35. Adushkin, V.V., Ryabova, S.A., Spivak, A.A., and Kharlamov, V.A., Dokl. Earth Sci., 2012, vol. 444, p. 642.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  36. Khachai, O.A., Gorn. Inf.-Anal. Byull., 2013, no. 7, p. 145.

  37. Haken, H., Advanced Synergetics, Berlin: Springer, 1983.

    Book  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Northern Industrial Environmental Problems, Federal Research Center “Kola Science Center,” Russian Academy of Sciences, 184209, Apatity, Russia

    O. I. Shumilov, E. A. Kasatkina & D. V. Makarov

  2. Polar Geophysical Institute, 184209, Apatity, Russia

    O. I. Shumilov & E. A. Kasatkina

Authors
  1. O. I. Shumilov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. E. A. Kasatkina
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. D. V. Makarov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to O. I. Shumilov.

Additional information

Translated by L. Mukhortova

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Shumilov, O.I., Kasatkina, E.A. & Makarov, D.V. Possible Role of Cosmophysical Factors in the Occurrence of Rockbursts and Earthquakes. Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 85, 324–328 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873821030266

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873821030266

Search

Navigation