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Seismicity in Poland: Updated Seismic Catalog

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Studies of Historical Earthquakes in Southern Poland

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Abstract

A short overview is presented of seismicity in Poland, based on historical data and, since the 1980s, instrumental records. As a level of seismicity is low, in most of the country no earthquakes have been recorded instrumentally, seismicity is extremely poorly recognized. There are areas known historically from the occurrence of earthquakes of Io = 6–7 but these are single events, never ever repeated there before and afterwards. This concerns mainly the Sudetic Foreland (Paleozoic Platform), the wide Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone and the Precambrian Platform. The most seismically active and the best recognized in Poland are Western Carpathians, along the Pieniny Klippen Belt, especially in the Orawa-Nowy Targ Basin, where continuing tectonic activity has been confirmed by carried out since August, 2008 seismic monitoring. A catalogue of earthquake recorded in Poland in the years 1496–2014, updated and supplemented by foreshocks and aftershocks, is presented.

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Notes

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    Translated from Polish version by Anna Dziembowska.

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    Geofyzikální ústav Akademie věd ČR (GFU) http://www.czechgeo.cz/gfu-bulletin/?do=process.

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    http://www.czechgeo.cz/gfu-bulletin/?do=process.

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    http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/moment_tensor/2004/041130_1718.ap.30_50s4k.

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    http://private.igf.edu.pl/~nlkozlak/.

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I am grateful to Professor Jan Kozák for providing materials on historical earthquakes in Poland from his own collections and archives of the Geophysical Institute in Prague. I am grateful to my colleagues from the Seismological Department of the Institute of Geophysics for making available to me the data base on location and magnitudes of local earthquakes in Poland in the year 2013. I acknowledge the help of Edward Gaczyński with preparing the figures and tables for publication. Special thanks to Anna Dziembowska for encouragement, assistance and help in preparing the whole monograph.

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Guterch, B. (2015). Seismicity in Poland: Updated Seismic Catalog. In: Guterch, B., Kozák, J. (eds) Studies of Historical Earthquakes in Southern Poland. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15446-6_3

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