THE ACTIVE FAULTS OF EURASIA DATABASE
https://doi.org/10.5800/GT-2017-8-4-0314
Abstract
This paper describes the technique used to create and maintain the Active Faults of Eurasia Database (AFED) based on the uniform format that ensures integrating the materials accumulated by many researchers, including the authors of the AFED. The AFED includes the data on more than 20 thousand objects: faults, fault zones and associated structural forms that show the signs of latest displacements in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. The geographical coordinates are given for each object. The AFED scale is 1:500000; the demonstration scale is 1:1000000. For each object, the AFED shows two kinds of characteristics: justification attributes, and estimated attributes. The justification attributes inform the AFED user about an object: the object’s name; morphology; kinematics; the amplitudes of displacement for different periods of time; displacement rates estimated from the amplitudes; the age of the latest recorded signs of activity, seismicity and paleoseismicity; the relationship of the given objects with the parameters of crustal earthquakes; etc. The sources of information are listed in the AFED appendix. The estimated attributes are represented by the system of indices reflecting the fault kinematics according to the classification of the faults by types, as accepted in structural geology, and includes three ranks of the Late Quaternary movements and four degrees of reliability of identifying the structures as active ones. With reference to the indices, the objects can be compared with each other, considering any of the attributes, or with any other digitized information. The comparison can be performed by any GIS software. The AFED is an efficient tool for obtaining the information on the faults and solving general problems, such as thematic mapping, determining the parameters of modern geodynamic processes, estimating seismic and other geodynamic hazards, identifying the tectonic development trends in the Pliocene–Quaternary stage of the Earth's development, etc. The Active Faults of Eurasia Database is created in the format providing for inputs of new information, as well the database updating and revision.
About the Authors
D. M. Bachmanov
Geological Institute of RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Bachmanov, Dmitry M., Candidate of Geology and Mineralogy, Senior Researcher
7 Pyzhevsky lane, Moscow 119017, Russia
A. I. Kozhurin
Geological Institute of RAS;
Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far East Branch of RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Kozhurin, Andrei I., Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy, Head of Laboratory
7 Pyzhevsky lane, Moscow 119017; 9 Piip Boulevard, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 683006, Russia
V. G. Trifonov
Geological Institute of RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Trifonov, Vladimir G., Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy, Senior Researcher
7 Pyzhevsky lane, Moscow 119017, Russia
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