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Seismic Activation in the Eastern Part of the Southern Slope of the Great Caucasus in the Late XX to Early XXI Centuries

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In this paper, we consider a series of strong earthquakes that occurred on the central and eastern segments of the southern slope of the Greater Caucasus recorded in the late XX to early XXI centuries. We present a complex analysis of seismological manifestations, based on of which the seismological and geodynamic situation of the region in the early XXI century are a generalized and interpreted.

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This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 18-55-06007Az_a, the Science Development Foundation under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, project no. EİF-BGM-4-RFTF-1/2017-21/17/2, and partially by the Basic Research Program of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, project no 18-55-45010IND_a.

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    G. J. Yetirmishli & T. Y. Mammadli

  2. Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy Sciences, 123242, Moscow, Russia

    E. A. Rogozhin & A. I. Sysolin

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Yetirmishli, G.J., Mammadli, T.Y., Rogozhin, E.A. et al. Seismic Activation in the Eastern Part of the Southern Slope of the Great Caucasus in the Late XX to Early XXI Centuries. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 55, 870–883 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433819080024

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