Traces of strong earthquakes in walls of ancient Mirmekii town, Eastern Crimea
A.N. Ovsyuchenko1, A.M. Korzhenkov1, A.S. Larkov1, Yu.V. Butanaev2, A.V. Marakhanov1, E.A. Rogozhin1
1 Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
2 Tuva Institute for the Integrated Development of Natural Resources, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Kyzyl, Russia
Corresponding author: A.S. Larkov, e-mail: las119@yandex.ru
Abstract. We have conducted a complex of archeoseismological works in Mirmekii ancient town. It belong to Bosporus Kingdom (Crimea). There were revealed numerous destructions and deformations of buildings in archeological excavations: ruptures displacing the walls, significant tilt of entire walls of the buildings, rotations of wall fragments and separate stones around vertical axis. This deformation complex testifies on their seismogenic origin. We have revealed traces of few strong earthquakes (3–5 during first millennium BC and 2 during first centuries AD). For some of them we could reveal the directions of maximum seismic oscillations. Intensity of the seismic oscillations were I0 ≤ IX. Obtained data coukd serve of a purpose of more reliable seismic hazard assessment for Crimea Peninsula, as well as for assessment of contribution of natural disasters in civilization development.
Keywords: archeoseismology, paleoseismology, seismotectonics, long-term seismic regime, Crimea, Kerch Peninsula
About the authors:
OVSYUCHENKO Alexander Nikolaevich – Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences. Russia, 123242, Moscow, Bolshaya Gruzinskaya st., 10-1. E-mail: ovs@ifz.ru
KORZHENKOV Andrey Mikhailovich – Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences. Russia, 123242, Moscow, Bolshaya Gruzinskaya st., 10-1. E-mail: korzhenkov@ifz.ru
LARKOV Alexander Sergeevich – Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences. Russia, 123242, Moscow, Bolshaya Gruzinskaya st., 10-1. E-mail: las119@yandex.ru
BUTANAEV Yuri Vladimirovich – Tuva Institute for the Integrated Development of Natural Resources, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. Russia, 667007, Kyzyl, Internatsionalnaya St., 117 a. E-mail: jyra3@mail.ru
MARAKHANOV Alexander Vladimirovich – Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences. Russia, 123242, Moscow, Bolshaya Gruzinskaya st., 10-1. E-mail: marahanov@rambler.ru
ROGOZHIN Evgeny Aleksandrovich – Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences. Russia, 123242, Moscow, Bolshaya Gruzinskaya st., 10-1. E-mail: eurog@ifz.ru
Cite this article as: Ovsyuchenko A.N., Korzhenkov A.M., Larkov A.S., Butanaev Yu.V., Marakhanov A.V., Rogozhin E.A. Traces of strong earthquakes in walls of ancient Mirmekii town, Eastern Crimea, Voprosy Inzhenernoi Seismologii (Problems of Engineering Seismology). 2021. V. 48, No. 1. P. 37–74. [in Russian]. https://doi.org/10.21455/VIS2021.1-3
English translation of the article will be published in Seismic Instruments, ISSN: 0747-9239 (Print) 1934-7871 (Online), https://link.springer.com/journal/11990