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The locations of possible earthquake occurrence (magnitudes M ≥ 6) have been determined for mountainous Crimea and the adjacent sea shelf, including the continental slope zone. The earthquake-generating structures were assumed to be intersections of morphostructural lineaments as found by morphostructural zoning. The measurement of geological and geophysical characteristics was followed by applying a decision rule that was derived previously using the CORA-3 pattern recognition algorithm in order to find possible locations of M ≥ 6 earthquakes in the Caucasus. The results corroborate the high seismic potential for the Yalta area where two events with magnitudes of 6.0 and 6.8 occurred in 1927, as well as indicating the possibility of M ≥ 6 earthquakes in other areas in mountainous Crimea and in the adjacent Black Sea area where no such events have yet been recorded.
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Original Russian Text © A.I. Gorshkov, A.A. Soloviev, Yu.I. Zharkikh, 2017, published in Vulkanologiya i Seismologiya, 2017, No. 6, pp. 21–27.
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Gorshkov, A.I., Soloviev, A.A. & Zharkikh, Y.I. A Morphostructural Zoning of the Mountainous Crimea and the Possible Locations of Future Earthquakes. J. Volcanolog. Seismol. 11, 407–412 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0742046317060021
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