Identification of Seismically Active Areas within the Voronezh Anteclise by Geomorphological and Tectonophysical Methods

摘要

Using the method of cluster analysis of morphometric topographical parameters, the areas that concentrate most of the epicenters of modern earthquakes within the Voronezh anteclise have been identified. Using computer modeling, the areas of possible formation of new small-length discontinuities in the modern stress field have been outlined. On the basis of complex geological and geomorphological data a tectonophysical model has been made. This model accounts for the nature of seismicity through the development of geodynamically active zones in a shear setting with the NW-oriented axis of maximum shortening.