Assessment of initial seismic impacts on the northern part of the Barents Sea shelf (Novaya Zemlya region) for the purpose of seismic microzoning in the areas of prospective hydrocarbon mining

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In recent years, in connection with the national task of developing the Arctic territories of Russia and the perspective increase in the hydrocarbon mining on the Arctic shelf, more attention is being paid to the study of seismicity in the Barents Sea shelf. The development of the Russian Arctic shelf with the prospect of increasing hydrocarbon mining is a strategically important issue. Research by B.A. Assinovskaya (1990, 1994) and Ya.V. Konechnaya (2015) allowed the authors to estimate the seismic effects for the northern part of the Barents Sea shelf (Novaya Zemlya region). The paper presents the assessment results of the initial seismic impacts that can be used to solve seismic microzoning problems in the areas of oil and gas infrastructure during the economic development of the Arctic territory.

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I. G. Mindel

Sergeev Institute of Environmental Geoscience, Russian Academy of Sciences

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Russian Federation, 13, str.2, Ulanskii per., Moscow 101000

B. A. Trifonov

Sergeev Institute of Environmental Geoscience, Russian Academy of Sciences

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Russian Federation, 13, str.2, Ulanskii per., Moscow 101000

M. D. Kaurkin

Sergeev Institute of Environmental Geoscience, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: igelab@mail.ru
Russian Federation, 13, str.2, Ulanskii per., Moscow 101000

V. V. Nesynov

Sergeev Institute of Environmental Geoscience, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: igelab@mail.ru
Russian Federation, 13, str.2, Ulanskii per., Moscow 101000

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2. Fig. 1. Fragment of maps of the OCP of the WHO zones of the Barents Sea shelf (according to the materials of the O. Yu. Schmidt Institute of Physics of Physics, RAS) [5, 8].

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3. Fig. 2. The location of the study area (rectangle) on a small-scale map of the occurrence of an earthquake (WHO) from the database of SRS-97 [8].

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4. Fig. 3. Map of the epicenters of seismic events in the area of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago for the period 1986-2010. [6] (numerical designations correspond to the number in table. 2). The rectangle shows the position of the study area.

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5. Fig. 4. Fragment of OCP-A, OCP-B and OCP-S maps according to the latest data of the Institute of Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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6. Fig. 5. Synthesized accelerogram (horizontal XY components) on the surface of rocky soil from an earthquake from a domain with Ms = 4.0 and R = 12 km (a), reaction spectrum 5% (b).

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7. Fig. 6. Synthesized accelerogram (horizontal components XY) on the surface of rocky soil from earthquake from lineament with Ms = 6.0 and R = 45 km (a), reaction spectrum 5% (b).

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