Tien Shan geohazards database: Earthquakes and landslides

[en] In this paper we present new and review already existing landslide and earthquake data for a large part of the Tien Shan, Central Asia. For the same area, only partial databases for sub-regions have been presented previously. They were compiled and new data were added to fill the gaps between the databases. Major new inputs are products of the Central Asia Seismic Risk Initiative (CASRI): a tentative digital map of active faults (even with indication of characteristic or possible maximum magnitude) and the earthquake catalogue of Central Asia until 2009 that was now updated with USGS data (to May 2014). The new compiled landslide inventory contains existing records of 1600 previously mapped mass movements and more than 1800 new landslide data. Considering presently available seismo-tectonic and landslide data, a target region of 1200 km (E–W) by 600 km (N–S) was defined for the production of more or less continuous geohazards information. This target region includes the entire Kyrgyz Tien Shan, the South-Western Tien Shan in Tajikistan, the Fergana Basin (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) as well as the Western part in Uzbekistan, the North-Easternmost part in Kazakhstan and a small part of the Eastern Chinese Tien Shan (for the zones outside Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, only limited information was available and compiled)...

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Earth sciences & physical geography

Author, co-author :

Havenith, Hans-Balder ; Université de Liège > Département de géologie > Géologie de l'environnement

Strom, Alexander

Torgoev, Isakbek

Torgoev, Almazbek ; Université de Liège > Département de géologie > Géologie de l'environnement

Lamair, Laura ; Université de Liège > Département de géographie > Géomorphologie et Géologie du Quaternaire

Ischuk, Anatoly

Abdrakhmatov, Kanatbek

Language :

English

Title :

Tien Shan geohazards database: Earthquakes and landslides

Publication date :

2015

Journal title :

Geomorphology

ISSN :

0169-555X

eISSN :

1872-695X

Publisher :

Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Special issue title :

Geohazard Databases

Volume :

249

Pages :

16-31

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