When Firm Land Collapses

E. M. Vysotsky, I. S. Novikov and A. R. Agatova

The Chuya earthquake of September 27, 2003 that shook the Russian Altai was the largest over the time of instrumental seismicity, but auspiciously nobody was killed.

Scientists got an opportunity to investigate the full scope of surface rupture from a large seismic event in a region of complex geomorphology.

Geological effects produced by the Chuya earthquake offer a model which can serve to identify properly numerous traces of past earthquakes in the region and thus to update existing maps of seismic risk.

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