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Seismotectonic position of the Kaliningrad September 21, 2004, earthquake

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The paper presents an alternative consistent seismotectonic model of the Kaliningrad (Russia) September 21, 2004, earthquake according to which source zones of the two strongest shocks were confined to a N-S fault off the Sambiiskii Peninsula in the Kaliningrad region. A left-lateral deformation fractured a local crustal zone between the town of Yantarnyi and the settlement of Bakalino. The model was constructed with the use of a method developed by the authors for structural analysis of gravity and magnetic data. Initial materials are revised in terms of the EMS-98 macroseismic scale, and modified maps showing the shaking intensity in the NW part of the Sambiiskii Peninsula are compiled.

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Original Russian Text © B.A. Assinovskaya, M.K. Ovsov, 2008, published in Fizika Zemli, 2008, No. 9, pp. 32–43.

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Assinovskaya, B.A., Ovsov, M.K. Seismotectonic position of the Kaliningrad September 21, 2004, earthquake. Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 44, 717–727 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351308090036

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