Study of local seismic events in Lithuania and adjacent areas using data from the PASSEQ experiment

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Janutyte, I. - Kozlovskaya, E. - Motuza, G. - Plomerová, Jaroslava - Babuška, Vladislav - Gaždová, Renata - Jedlička, Petr - Kolínský, Petr - Málek, Jiří - Novotný, Oldřich - Růžek, Bohuslav … Total 42 authors
Study of local seismic events in Lithuania and adjacent areas using data from the PASSEQ experiment.
Pure and Applied Geophysics. Roč. 170, č. 5 (2013), s. 797-814. ISSN 0033-4553. E-ISSN 1420-9136
Institutional support: RVO:67985530 ; RVO:67985891
Keywords : location of local seismic events * East European Craton * PASSEQ passive seismic experiment
Subject RIV: DC - Siesmology, Volcanology, Earth Structure
Impact factor: 1.854, year: 2013

The territory of Lithuania and adjacent areas of the East European Craton have always been considered a region of low seismicity. Two recent earthquakes with magnitudes of more than 5 in the Kaliningrad District (Russian Federation) on 21 September 2004 motivated re-evaluation of the seismic hazard in Lithuania and adjacent territories. A new opportunity to study seismicity in the region is provided by the PASSEQ (Pasive Seismic Experiment) project that aimed to study the lithosphere-asthenosphere structure around the Trans-European Suture Zone. Twenty-six seismic stations of the PASSEQ temporary seismic array were installed in the territory of Lithuania. The stations recorded a number of local and regional seismic events originating from Lithuania and adjacent areas. This data can be used to answer the question of whether there exist seismically active tectonic zones in Lithuania that could be potentially hazardous for critical industrial facilities. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to find any natural tectonic seismic events in Lithuania and to obtain more general view of seismicity in the region.
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