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Microseismicity in Local Areas: The Southeastern Part of the Fennoscandian Shield

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This paper summarizes the observations of microseismic emissions by these authors in several areas of the Russian part of the Fennoscandian Shield to assess the potential of microseismicity to determine the present-day activity of local features in the upper part of the geologic medium. We give amplitude–frequency characteristics and the space–time distribution of naturally occurring microseismic events that are hypothesized to be of endogenous origin. We discuss the relationships these characteristics have to the regional geodynamic setting, average dimensions, and petrographic composition of active rock blocks.

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  1. Institute of Geosphere Dynamics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii prosp., 38, building 1, Moscow, 119334, Russia

    V. G. Spungin

  2. Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevskii per., 7, Moscow, 119017, Russia

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Original Russian Text © V.G. Spungin, D.S. Zykov, 2018, published in Vulkanologiya i Seismologiya, 2018, No. 1, pp. 57–68.

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Spungin, V.G., Zykov, D.S. Microseismicity in Local Areas: The Southeastern Part of the Fennoscandian Shield. J. Volcanolog. Seismol. 12, 56–66 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0742046318010062

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