scholarly journals STRONG EARTHQUAKES in the NORTH of the LAKE BAIKAL REGION (Mw=4.6–4.7) in 2015

Author(s):  
Ya. Radziminovich ◽  
V. Melnikova ◽  
N. Gileva ◽  
A. Filippova

The paper considers three relatively strong earthquakes that occurred in 2015 in the northern Lake Baikal region: July 7 Upper Akuli earthquake (Mw=4.6) with the epicenter at the headwaters of the Akuli River, and September 25 Gulonga-I (Mw=4.7) and December 13 Gulonga-II earthquakes (Mw=4.6) with the epicenters near the mountain lakes Gulonga. Instrumental and macroseismic data on these seismic events are reported. A seismic moment tensor, calculated from surface wave records, shows normal fault focal mechanisms for Upper Akuli and Gulonga-II earthquakes and strike-slip movements in the source of the Gulonga-I seismic event. The results obtained could be used in further studies of seismic zoning and seismic hazard assessment in the northern Lake Baikal region.

Author(s):  
N. Gileva ◽  
V. Melnikova ◽  
A. Seredkina ◽  
Ya. Radziminovich

We consider the May 23, 2014 Muyakan earthquake (Mw=5.5) occurred in the Muyakan Range at the north-east of the Baikal rift zone near the eastern tunnel portal of the Baikal-Amur Mainline. This event was followed by numerous aftershocks (КР=5.6–9.9) which number exceeded 2000 by the end of the year. Spatio-temporal analysis of the Muyakan seismic sequence shows that its epicentral field consists of two isolated clusters: eastern and western ones. All the main events including the foreshocks, main shock and the strongest aftershocks (Mw=4.4; 4.5) occurred in the eastern cluster while only small seismic events (КР<10.0) were recorded in the western one. Seismic moment tensor was calculated for the Muyakan earthquake from surface wave amplitude spectra. As a result, we obtained information about the rift type focal mechanism, scalar seismic moment (M0=1.9•1017 Nm), moment magnitude (Mw=5.5) and hypocentral depth (h=24 km). From regional data, hypocentral depths of the main shock and the major number of the following earthquakes (80 %) were distributed in the depth range h=3–11 km. Maximum intensity of the main shock (4–5 according to MSK-64) was felt in Severomuysk urban village (=29 km). The obtained results could be used for seismic hazard assessment of the crucial part of the Baikal-Amur Mainline.


Author(s):  
V. Melnikova ◽  
N. Gileva ◽  
Ya. Radziminovich ◽  
A. Filippova

We consider September 2, 2015, Mw=5.1 Tallay earthquake occurred in the previously aseismic area of the North-Muya Ridge adjoining to the Muya-Kuanda basin from the north. Instrumental and macroseismic data on this seismic event are presented. Its seismic moment tensor is calculated from surface wave amplitude spectra. New data on strong ground motions are obtained within the north-eastern flank of the Baikal rift. The Tallay earthquake is found to be connected with seismogenic renewal of the second-order multidirectional faults activated in the rift stress field.


2015 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 282-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. N. Urbanavichene

Until recently only two species of Gyalideopsis (G. piceicola and G. alnicola) were known from very few localities in Russia. Gyalideopsis helvetica is reported for the first time for Russia from the southern part of Baikal area (KhamarDaban Range, Baikalsky Zapovednik). Description of the collected specimen and its comparison with the literature data are provided; morphology, ecology and distribution of G. helvetica are discussed. The hyphophores of G. helvetica are recorded and described for the first time. An identification key to Gyalideopsis species known in Russia is provided.


1995 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 792-801 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisato. Iwata ◽  
Shinsuke. Tanabe ◽  
Kozo. Ueda ◽  
Ryo. Tatsukawa

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Yu. Semenov ◽  
T. V. Khodzher ◽  
V. A. Obolkin ◽  
V. M. Domysheva ◽  
L. P. Golobokova ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
D. Chebrov ◽  
A. Chebrova ◽  
I. Abubakirov ◽  
E. Matveenko ◽  
S. Mityushkina ◽  
...  

The seismicity review of Kamchatka and surrounding territories for 2014 is given. In Kamchatka earthquake catalogue minimum local magnitude of completeness is MLmin=3.5, and for earthquakes under the Okhotsk sea with h≥350 kmMLmin=3.6. The Kamchatka earthquake catalogue for 2014 with ML3.5, published in the Appendix to this annual, includes 1114 events. 86 earthquakes of the catalogue with ML=3.35–6.2 were felt in Kamchatka and surrounding areas with seismic intensity I ranged from 2 to 5 according the MSK-64 scale. For all events with ML5.0 occurred in the area of responsibility of the KB GS RAS in 2014, an attempt to calculate the seismic moment tensor (SMT) was made. There are 40 such events in the regional catalogue. For 36 earthquakes, the SMT and depth h of the equivalent point source were calculated successfully. The calcu-lations were performed for the SMT double-couple model using a nonlinear algorithm. In 2014, a typical location of the earthquake epicenters was observed in the Kamchatka zone. In 2014, the seismicity level in all selected zones and in the region as a whole corresponded to the background one according to the “SESL’09” scale. The number of recorded events with ML3.6 and strong earthquakes with ML5.1 is close to the average annual value. Anomalous and outstanding events were not recorded.


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