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Geodynamic hazard and risk assessments for sites close or in tectonic zones with shear movements

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No region is excluded from actions of recent geodynamic short- or long-term effects which can be observed even on the Earth’s surface. The article delivers a geodynamic hazard assessment for the anthropogenic objects threatened by permanent shear movements occurring along tectonic faults and a way how to mitigate and/or eliminate the object risk. The proposed approach is applied to a case example of a motorway tunnel leading through rock masses where dynamically active zones with shear movements along their faults are expected. To detect the shear movements among rock masses, the contemporary satellite geodetic GPS methodology was used.

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Acknowledgments

The presented investigations had been supported by the Czech Science Foundation, the projects 205/97/0679, 205/01/0480 and 205/05/2287 by the research programme of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic, the projects LN00A005, LC506 and 1P05ME781, and by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic project 1QS3004600551. All projects fully agree with the IRSM research plan A VOZ 30460519.

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  1. Centre for Earth Dynamics Research, Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics, Academy of Sciences, V Holešovičkách 41, 182 09, Prague, The Czech Republic

    V. Schenk & Z. Schenková

  2. Geophysical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Boční II 1401, 14131, Prague 4, The Czech Republic

    Zuzana Jechumtálová

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Schenk, V., Schenková, Z. & Jechumtálová, Z. Geodynamic hazard and risk assessments for sites close or in tectonic zones with shear movements. Environ Geol 51, 1113–1117 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00254-006-0402-2

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