For a long time, the north-western part of the East European Craton, specifically the East Baltic region (EBR), was considered an aseismic territory. Historical earthquakes did take place in the EBR, but they occurred rarely and could not always be associated with tectonic conditions. The attitude towards seismicity of the region began to change after the Osmussaar earthquake on 25 October 1976 (M = 4.7) and especially after the Kaliningrad earthquakes on 21 September 2004 (Mw = 5.0; Mw = 5.2). In this study, the seismicity of the EBR was generalized over 13 years after the Kaliningrad region earthquakes on the basis of Scandinavian and our own data. In several cases focal mechanisms were solved for weak earthquakes. The study showed a tendency of seismic activity to decrease from northwest to southeast, a predominant concentration of earthquakes sources in the East Baltic coastal zone, and the activation of Ladoga-Bothnia, Vyborg, Olaine-Inčukalns, Võrtsjärv zones. The main problems are associated with a rare seismic network, high level of ambient seismic noise, and a large number of man-made sources.
It is reported that 22 stationary seismic stations, 2 arrays and 7 local seismic stations, located in the area of Novovoronezh and Kursk nuclear stations, monitor seismicity of the Russian territory of the East European platform (EEP). A new station Belogornoe with high registration class has been opened, which also belongs to the International Monitoring System for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (IMS CTBTO). The results of the microseismic noise study at the Pulkovo network stations and assessment of maximum distance of earthquake registration in the Voronezh crystalline massif are presented. In 2014, relatively strong earthquakes with М3.0 were not recorded on the Russian territory of the EEP. Weaker natural seismicity with M≤2 was recorded in Karelia and the border areas with Finland, near Kandalaksha Bay, near the Khibiny Massif on the Kola Peninsula and on the territory of the Voronezh Crystalline Massif. Observations of local networks near nuclear stations are aimed at updating the information on seismicity previously considered as an aseismic territory of the EEP. Man-made events were recorded in permanent quarries, the most powerful of them (M=3.1–3.3) were produced in the quarries on the territory of the Kursk magnetic anomaly.
It is reported that 41 stationary seismic stations, 2 arrays, and 7 temporary seismic stations, located in the area of Novovoronezh and Kursk nuclear stations, monitored seismicity of the Russian territory of the East European Platform (EEP) in 2015. The registration capabilities of the seismic network at the EEP as
a whole were estimated based on the average station noise level and the equation for the energy decay of seismic phases. Zones with the best capabilities have been allocated. A feature of seismicity in 2015 is the manifestation of earthquakes of moderate magnitudes (ML=2.7–3.9) in the peripheral regions (in the southwest, west, and northwest) and in zones associated with paleorift structures: in the southwest – with the Dnieper Donetsk and in the northeast – with the Kirov-Kazhim and Soligalich (Central Russian) aulacogenes. The results of the macroseismic survey are given for the earthquake in Poltava on February 2, 2015, with M=3.7; focal mechanisms of two earthquakes (03.02.2015 and 12.06.2015) are constructed. According to the data of the Latvian Center, an earthquake was recorded in the region of Lithuania bordering the Kaliningrad region. Weaker natural seismicity with ML≤2.5 was recorded in Karelia and the regions bordering with Finland, near the Kandalaksha Bay, near the Khibiny, and Lovozersky massifs on the Kola Peninsula, and on the territory of the Voronezh crystalline massif.
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