V. V. Gravirov, A. V. Deshcherevskii, Y. O. Kuzmin, D. V. Likhodeev, A. L. Sobisevich, I. A. Shirokov
{"title":"Improvements in High-Precision Tiltmeter Instrument Systems Located in an Underground Geophysical Observatory","authors":"V. V. Gravirov, A. V. Deshcherevskii, Y. O. Kuzmin, D. V. Likhodeev, A. L. Sobisevich, I. A. Shirokov","doi":"10.3103/S0747923922040041","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S0747923922040041","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The paper presents the results of both theoretical and experimental studies carried out in the framework of the integrated problem on improving national systems for high-precision instrumental observations using the IPE RAS Geophysical Observatory in the Northern Caucasus. The geophysical observatory is located in the vicinity of the Mt. Elbrus in a deep underground tunnel of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory, supervised by INR RAS. Along with general information about the underground laboratory, the significant performance characteristics of the main instrument—a two-axial tiltmeter—are presented, as well as the data acquisition, processing, and storage system. The influence of natural and technogenic disturbances on the results of interpreting both tidal harmonics and other long-period variations are estimated via the developed technique to minimize the impact of a separate class of disturbances; an express estimate of the amplitude of the observed tide is performed.</p>","PeriodicalId":45174,"journal":{"name":"Seismic Instruments","volume":"58 4","pages":"363 - 378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4111447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ya. B. Radziminovich, A. V. Novopashina, O. F. Lukhneva, A. V. Kadetova, N. A. Gileva
{"title":"Detailed Macroseismic Survey and Rational Approach to Seismic Intensity Assessment within the Territory of a Large City: Case Study of the Consequences of the September 21, 2020 Bystraya Earthquake in Irkutsk","authors":"Ya. B. Radziminovich, A. V. Novopashina, O. F. Lukhneva, A. V. Kadetova, N. A. Gileva","doi":"10.3103/S0747923922040089","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S0747923922040089","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article discusses the advisability of conducting detailed macroseismic surveys within large cities and urban agglomerations. A retrospective analysis of information about earthquakes that occurred in the past decades and were felt in Irkutsk with an intensity of <i>I</i> = V or higher revealed the problem of preserving and availability of primary data on earthquake effects. Processing of the macroseismic data collected using internet-based questionnaires for the Irkutsk area after the September 21, 2020 Bystraya earthquake was carried out. The usage of online questionnaires has demonstrated high efficiency and information content, and also opened up certain possibilities such as improving the method with respect to the particular conditions of East Siberia. A large number of responses from earthquake eyewitnesses makes it possible to assess the shaking intensity separately in every administrative unit of Irkutsk, which in turn contributes to an increase in the detail of documenting the earthquake macroseismic field. The results allow us to consider assessment of the shaking intensity within certain parts of Irkutsk city as more rational versus assessment for the entire territory of the city.</p>","PeriodicalId":45174,"journal":{"name":"Seismic Instruments","volume":"58 4","pages":"409 - 423"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4112281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Young Landforms Created by Earthquakes in the Foothills of the Kurai Range (Gorny Altai)","authors":"A. M. Korzhenkov, E. V. Deev, N. I. Pozdnyakova","doi":"10.3103/S0747923922040065","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S0747923922040065","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Structural and geomorphological studies were carried out in the foothills of the Kurai Range in southeast Gorny Altai. It is shown that the structure of the Kurai Fault Zone here is governed by north-dipping reverse faults and thrusts, along which the Kurai Range thrusts onto deposits of the Chuya and Kurai depressions. They are feathered by south-dipping backthrusts. Displacements along these fault systems lead to growth of forbergs in front of the range front and separation of smaller negative morphostructures from the Chuya and Kurai depressions. Numerous fault scarps have been revealed along the faults, which are outlets of seismic sources of paleoearthquakes to the surface. For a number of scarps, in addition to the vertical component, the strike-slip component of displacements is also read in the relief. Some fault scarps have an age of a few hundred years and arose in the sources of paleoearthquakes with minimal magnitude: <i>M</i><sub><i>W</i></sub> = 6.7–7.3.</p>","PeriodicalId":45174,"journal":{"name":"Seismic Instruments","volume":"58 4","pages":"424 - 441"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4454730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. V. Kalinina, S. M. Ammosov, R. E. Tatevossian, A. M. Turchkov
{"title":"Using Microseisms for Seismic Microzoning","authors":"A. V. Kalinina, S. M. Ammosov, R. E. Tatevossian, A. M. Turchkov","doi":"10.3103/S0747923922040053","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S0747923922040053","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The efficiency of using microseisms for seismic microzoning (SMZ) is discussed based on experimental field data in different geological conditions. The microseism method is in the list of recommendations and codes and is widely used because of its low cost. In SMZ, microseisms are used to estimate the shaking intensity increment by calculating the amplitude spectra at seismic stations and resonance characteristics of ground layers, usually in combination with other methods. Difficulties in taking into account numerous local noise sources may significantly reduce the accuracy of the results. This has to be considered when planning field works for each object (site). In some cases (high anthropogenic noise level), it is better to refrain from using the spectral amplitude ratio in the high frequency band (above 3 Hz). Calculation of intensity increments individually in the 0.5–2 and 2–3 Hz bands, taking as the final increment the maximum of both calculations, guarantees the due level of conservatism; hence, the microseism method is also applicable to critical facilities. The spectral ratio of the horizontal and vertical components of seismic motion (H/V) can be used to estimate the resonance characteristics of soils and structure of the upper part of the soil profile, in particular, the depth of the soil/bedrock boundary.</p>","PeriodicalId":45174,"journal":{"name":"Seismic Instruments","volume":"58 4","pages":"398 - 408"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4112280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Features of the Structure and Formation of Dislocations in the Section of the Mikulinsky (\u0000 ({text{Q}}_{3}^{1})\u0000 ) Lacustrine Sediments of the Dmitrov Quarry (Moscow Region)","authors":"E. S. Gorbatov, S. F. Kolesnikov, A. A. Rasskazov","doi":"10.3103/S074792392204003X","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S074792392204003X","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A complex of dislocations is described (extended gently dipping faults with a displacement of up to 1 m, dipping towards the center of the lens, steep faults with displacements of 5–20 cm), liquefaction structures (angular pseudonodules of sands in silts), near fault and near-strike-slip fault folds in the section of a large lens of the Mikulinskiy lacustrine–bog sediments (interbedded silt with a horizon of peat and clayey gyttja) of the aseismic region of the Russian Plate (Klin–Dmitrov ridge) in order to compare them with similar structures of the Baltic Shield, the seismogenicity of which is being discussed. It has been shown that the sequence was not subjected to periglacial phenomena such as glaciotectonics, glaciokarst, cryogenic deformations, the presence of which and pseudomorphism along polygonal-veined ice was noted only in the roof of the Mikulinskiy interglacial complex. A model is proposed for the formation of dislocations as a result of slumping of a silt layer with uneven subsidence of the underlying layers of peat sediments, which have been strongly compacted during lithogenesis, which explains the features of the kinematics of faults. The results showed that the dislocations of the Mikulinsky complexes of the Dmitrov quarry do not fundamentally differ from similar structures of the Baltic Shield, which confirms their lithogenic or exogenic (rather than seismotectonic) genesis in both regions. The differences in the dislocation complexes of the two regions are in the different sequence of formation of liquefaction and faults structures: in the Dmitrov section, they were formed synchronously, in the sections of the Baltic Shield, asynchronously.</p>","PeriodicalId":45174,"journal":{"name":"Seismic Instruments","volume":"58 4","pages":"473 - 484"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4110794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}