MZIMTA-BESKESSKAYA SEISMOACTIVE ZONE OF BIG SOCHI REGION AND SURROUNDING AREA

  • S.S. Malofeeva Federal State Unitary Geological Enterprise Kavkazgeols’emka, Yessentuki, Russia
  • D.N. Zabirchenko Federal State Unitary Geological Enterprise Kavkazgeols’emka, Yessentuki, Russia
  • V.A. Lavrishchev Federal State Unitary Geological Enterprise Kavkazgeols’emka, Yessentuki, Russia
Keywords: exogenic geological processes, the geological environment, the Big Sochi, a tectonic structure, seismotectonic division into districts, a fold-explosive zone, seismicity, earthquake, a seismoactive zone, magnitude, the hypocenter

Abstract

As a result of seismotectonic division into districts of the Big Sochi and adjoining nine seismoactive zones are allocated. The Mzymta-Beskessky seismoactive zone is allocated as deep focusing on localisation of the hypocentres of earthquakes more deeply 25 km. Structurally-spatial position of congestions of the centers of earthquakes within this zone confirms a hypothesis about the mechanism of their occurrence caused subduction of the Black Sea plate under Transcaucasian.
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Published
2012-10-09
Issue
Vol 2 No 1 (2012): Geology and Geophysics of the South of Russia, 2012 No 1
Section
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