Probing the Upper End of Intracontinental Earthquake Magnitude: A Prehistoric Example From the Dzhungarian and Lepsy Faults of Kazakhstan

Tsai, Chin-Ho; Abdrakhmatov, Kanatbek; Mukambayev, A.; Elliott, A. J.; Elliott, John R.; Grützner, Christoph; Rhodes, E. J.; Ivester, Andrew H.; Walker, Richard; Wilkinson, Roberta

doi:10.1029/2022tc007300

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“…In general, magnitude is a conventional dimensionless value, characterizing the total energy of elastic vibrations caused by an earthquake, including technogenic one [44]. Magnitude is not measured in points, so it is correct to call "an earthquake of magnitude".…”

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Predicting the magnitude of technogenic earthquakes during underground mining of the Zhezkazgan ore field

Khuangan,

Asainov,

Khojayev

et al. 2024

Min. miner. depos.

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Purpose. Determining a relationship between the shear/failure of the rock mass and the technogenic earthquakes caused by them during underground mining of ore deposits with the derivation of an equation for the dependence of the technogenic earthquake indicators for the conditions of the Zhezkazgan copper-ore field. Methods. The research methodology consists of studying and analyzing early research on technogenic earthquakes by the method of statistical data processing. Calculation of rock mass deformation distribution in the study area is based on numerical modeling in the Comsol Multiphysics 5.6 and MATLAB 2020 software package environment. Calculations are performed based on solving a plane problem using the Finite Element Method (FEM). Findings. Based on the transition from the failure area to subsidence and shear values of the overlying rock mass stratum, an equation for the dependence of the earthquake magnitude on the numerical values of the mass subsidence or shear has been obtained. Originality. For the first time, based on the physics and geomechanics of rock mass shear processes, empirical-analytical formulas have been obtained that make it possible to predict the technogenic earthquake magnitude during underground mining of ore deposits in the conditions of the Zhezkazgan copper-ore field. Practical implications. Preliminary predictive calculations made by the obtained formulas for the conditions of the active mine No. 31 of the East-Zhezkazgan mine, ТОО Kazakhmys Smelting, show acceptable results of magnitude value, comparable to in-situ measurements during field mining. This prediction makes it possible to pre-calculate the technogenic earthquake magnitude at the stage of designing mining operations and make appropriate scientifically sound decisions during further mining of the field.

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Predicting the magnitude of technogenic earthquakes during underground mining of the Zhezkazgan ore field

Khuangan,

Asainov,

Khojayev

et al. 2024

Min. miner. depos.

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Investigation of the use of topographic data derived from Pléiades imagery for high-resolution hillslope-scale morphometry

Pellegrino,

Godard,

Fleury

2024

Geomorphology

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Earthquake supercycles and fault interaction over the past 32 ka in the Lake Ebinur area, Xinjiang, China

Wei,

Jiang,

Shi

et al. 2024

Science of The Total Environment

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Probing the Upper End of Intracontinental Earthquake Magnitude: A Prehistoric Example From the Dzhungarian and Lepsy Faults of Kazakhstan

Abstract: There is a growing realization that active faults deep within the continental interiors behave in ways that are unexpected given the present understanding of global earthquakes and fault rupture (

Cited by 5 publications

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Predicting the magnitude of technogenic earthquakes during underground mining of the Zhezkazgan ore field

Predicting the magnitude of technogenic earthquakes during underground mining of the Zhezkazgan ore field

Investigation of the use of topographic data derived from Pléiades imagery for high-resolution hillslope-scale morphometry

Earthquake supercycles and fault interaction over the past 32 ka in the Lake Ebinur area, Xinjiang, China

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