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- Title
The largest recent earthquake in the Upper Amur region on October 14, 2011: First results of multidisciplinary study.
- Authors
Khanchuk, A.; Safonov, D.; Radziminovich, Ya.; Kovalenko, N.; Konovalov, A.; Shestakov, N.; Bykov, V.; Serov, M.; Sorokin, A.
- Abstract
The article presents information on a multidiciplinary study related to a large earthquake occurred in the Skovorodino district of the Amur river region which reached the intensity of seven on the Richter scale. It informs that the earthquake was the most disastrous quakes ever experienced by the region over the entire period of instrumental seismic observations. It further informs that the area is covered with a large number of secondary fractures that either follows the main South Tukuringrskii Fault and the earthquake could have been a result of the movement of one of them.
- Subjects
AMUR River (China &; Russia); RESEARCH; EARTHQUAKES; EARTHQUAKE intensity; RICHTER scale; EARTHQUAKE zones; BONE fractures; DISASTERS
- Publication
Doklady Earth Sciences, 2012, Vol 445, Issue 1, p916
- ISSN
1028-334X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S1028334X12070227