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First paleoseismic data from the Balkan Range

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985891%3A_____%2F23%3A00575151" target="_blank" >RIV/67985891:_____/23:00575151 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2023.230009" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2023.230009</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2023.230009" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.tecto.2023.230009</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    First paleoseismic data from the Balkan Range

  • Original language description

    The normal faults along the Balkan range front integrate great tectonic relief, prominent basin-and-range morphology, historic seismic quiescence, and ongoing dilatation rate varying near zero. The official standards prioritize the instrumental seismicity in a random model of earthquake occurrence, and the region is assessed at low seismic hazard levels. The need of geologic data on earthquake occurrence motivated us to excavate the first paleoseismological trench in the Balkan Range. We trenched the Zlatitsa normal fault, which occupies the westernmost position within a zone of localized strain along the Central Balkan Range. The trench exposure revealed two surface-rupturing earthquakes generated at a long-term slip rate lower than 0.04 mm/yr, probably about 0.02 mm/yr for the past 42 thousand years. A stratigraphic hiatus between the earthquake records, coincident with the Last Glacial Maximum, results in large uncertainties in the estimated inter-event time, yielding 13.2–33.4 kyr (95 % confidence interval). The new data suggest that the strain is released by regionally distributed faulting. The Zlatitsa fault may form spatial clusters with the neighboring faults, analogous to the two M6.8–7.1 earthquake pairs in 1904 and 1928, south the studied location. The time elapsed since the most recent earthquake on the Zlatitsa fault is 1–15 % from the duration of the previous seismic cycle. The geodetic dilatation rate in the fault vicinity most likely exceeds several times the paleoseismic dilatation rate. However, the geodetic rate eastward from the fault is nearly identical to the paleoseismic rate obtained in the trench. Assuming exponentially decreasing fault reloading, the Zlatitsa fault may still undergo rapid stress restoration, whereas the time elapsed since the most recent earthquakes on faults to the east may be longer than the corresponding relaxation time.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10505 - Geology

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2023

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Tectonophysics

  • ISSN

    0040-1951

  • e-ISSN

    1879-3266

  • Volume of the periodical

    863

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    20 SEP

  • Country of publishing house

    NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

  • Number of pages

    14

  • Pages from-to

    230009

  • UT code for WoS article

    001070833500001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85169039098