Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)
Moscow, Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)
Russian Federation
Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits Petrography Mineralogy and Geochemistry
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
UDK 55 Геология. Геологические и геофизические науки
UDK 550.34 Сейсмология
UDK 550.383 Главное магнитное поле Земли
GRNTI 37.01 Общие вопросы геофизики
GRNTI 37.15 Геомагнетизм и высокие слои атмосферы
GRNTI 37.25 Океанология
GRNTI 37.31 Физика Земли
GRNTI 38.01 Общие вопросы геологии
GRNTI 36.00 ГЕОДЕЗИЯ. КАРТОГРАФИЯ
GRNTI 37.00 ГЕОФИЗИКА
GRNTI 38.00 ГЕОЛОГИЯ
GRNTI 39.00 ГЕОГРАФИЯ
GRNTI 52.00 ГОРНОЕ ДЕЛО
OKSO 05.00.00 Науки о Земле
BBK 26 Науки о Земле
TBK 63 Науки о Земле. Экология
BISAC SCI SCIENCE
Intensification of mining activities often lead to nucleation of strong earthquakes and fault-slip bursts in areas that were previously thought to be aseismic or of low seismicity. Triggering strong seismic events associates with slips on existing tectonic faults and large fractures, whose structures essentially alter along strike. This work analyzes parameters of mine seismicity at the Korobkovskoye iron ore deposit, within which the large North-Eastern fault is localized. The goal of this analysis is to assess the probability of triggering strong seismic events at the fault segments with different structures of the core. The technique of ripple-fired blasting and horizon mining are employed in developing the deposit. This provokes weak seismic activity within the mine field. When explosions are hold in host rock, seismic events localize within the blasted chamber. The magnitude statistics displays distribution that obeys a power law, and the scaling exponent 𝑏-value, as a rule, is less than 2. When explosions are hold in the vicinity of the fault, seismic events localize along its trace, and the 𝑏-value, as a rule, exceeds 2. The main feature of seismicity at the Korobkovskoye iron ore deposit is that the induced events are of low radiative efficiency of 8,9 × 10−9–4,9 × 10−7 J/(N·m), which corresponds to “slow earthquakes”. The core of the North-Eastern fault contains mainly velocity-strengthening rocks, causing initiation of slow slip events. It is this circumstance that probably determines initiation of slow events. Linking the data of seismic monitoring and the structural and rheological properties of materials that compose the fault core allows to suggest that within the mine field in the vicinity of the North-Eastern fault the accumulated deformations can release mainly via slow and aseismic slips.
slow earthquakes, velocity strengthening, mine seismicity, tectonic fault, seismic monitoring
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