... in the Kazakh Republic and adjoining regions of the Russian Republic. This basin may become an important producing region in the near future. Successful first finds were also made in the eastern part of the East Siberian platform, where the importance of new oil discoveries is being evaluated. At the same time...

... explosions” (see Fujita 1995 , for events in the Sakha Republic [Yakutia]) detonated for scientific and economic purposes. Seismicity shown within China, Mongolia, and the Aleutian Islands (east of the U.S.–Russia border) only include events found in the compiled Russian sources. Events...

... fuels. With regard to the production of Sakhalin, until 1934, the greater part of the production of this island was available to the Japanese by purchase from the Russian share of the production. Although Japan owns the southern part of Sakhalin (Karafuto), exploration has shown that the most productive...

... attracted a lot of interest from western oil companies although development costs are expected to be fairly high (estimated at $2.75/boe) by Russian standards. However, this is somewhat offset by proximity to Asian export markets. Some prospective areas around Sakhalin need extensive seismic coverage...

..., to prove up and develop its vast reserves and deeper possibilities the expenditure by the Russian Government of vast sums of money is necessary. The ultimate reserves of land areas of the United States, we now place at 125 billion barrels of which 67.8 billion barrels have been produced; of offshore areas...

... and Russian seismological data, and yet are of great interest and importance to those conducting detailed research on the seismicity of the former USSR. Since its inception, K -class has been the primary means of quantifying the size of small events in the former USSR and continues to be used...

... as Middle Asia), and Siberia. Sadly, Russia itself nearly lacks dinosaurs, the two exceptions being the poorly known hadrosaurs, Nipponosaurus from Sakhalin Island and Mandschurosaurus from the Amur River region of Siberia. Modest dinosaurian remains are known from several of the republics of the FSU...

... , E.V. , Lomize , M.G. , 1995 . Geotectonics with the Basics of Geodynamics [in Russian] . Izd. Mosk. Univ. , Moscow . Kim , H.C. , Lee , Y. , 2007 . Heat flow in the Republic of Korea . J. Geophys. Res. 12 , 1 – 9...

... reported. In addition to 3 dynamically positioned ice-class drillships purchased from Finland in 1981-1982 (1 of which was transferred for drilling to Sakhalin Island in the Far East), the Russians bought a jack-up built at Rauma Repola in Finland and built the “Shelf-4” semisubmersible rig at USSR’s yard...

... shelf. For the more important districts, namely, Moscow-East Russian basin, Pre-Caspian and extensions, Transcaspian, South Caucasus, and East Sakhalin, the estimated total area is 1,805,000 square miles, with sedimentary rocks totaling 2,736,000 cubic miles and having an oil-gas content...

... of development of the raw mineral complex of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) under present-day conditions (Proceedings of conference) [in Russian], 103 – 105 , 2002 . 3. Kashirtsev , V.A. , Organic geochemistry of naphthides in the eastern Siberian...

... of Australia, in Papua New Guinea and others; East Siberia and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Sakhalin shelf, Arctic shelf gas reserves in Russia; – the rapid development in innovative production techniques to deal with unconventional resources, such as gaseous hydrocarbons (shale gas, coal bed methane...

... in the Australian continent. Reports from Sakhalin indicate that oil production in the northern half of the Russian controlled island declined slightly, but that this decline may have been offset by an increase in production from the former Japanese southern half of Sakhalin. AUSTRALIA America...

... of the Russian Far East recorded for the study period. The Arctic and Laptev Sea seismotectonic zones. The seismicity in the water area of the Arctic Ocean is determined by a chain of earthquake epicenters running parallel to the island line Spitsbergen–Franz Josef Land–Severnaya Zemlya from the De...

... of the Apsheron Peninsula, Grozny, and Maikop have yielded oil in quantity. Russian production in 1946 was estimated 5 inclusive of Sakhalin at 454,794 barrels daily but may have been greater; additional Russian controlled production is about 120,289 barrels, giving Russia a total of 575,085 barrels daily...

.... In the period between 1851 and 1888, the Russian Academy of Science and several other scientific and military institutions organized mining, geological, paleontological, and many other expeditions which advanced into the most remote parts of this vast Russian Empire. Kamchatka and Sakhalin were reached...

... in October 1996 on the “Strategies for urban earthquake risk management for the Central Asian Republics” pointed out that the seismic resistance of Soviet‐era buildings was significantly lower than was officially proclaimed. Analyzing the devastating effects of the 1988 Armenian and 1995 Sakhalin earthquakes...

... oil and gas production was extended in the Szeged area. A Russian seismic vessel made a survey of the Bulgarian Black Sea shelf. An oil discovery was reported in Czechoslovakia in Moravia, southeast of Brno. Systematic hydrocarbon exploration in East Germany was accelerated by a Russian aid mission...

... peninsula. The Sea of Okhotsk (SO) is bounded on the north and northwest by the eastern Russia (RU), on the east by Sakhalin (SA), on the west by the Kamchatka peninsula (KP), and on the south by the Kuril trench (KT), as shown in Figure 1 . The SO and the KP can be considered parts of the same plate [ 16...

.... Abbreviations stand for: DF, Delta Fault; SEF, Sakhalin–Enkhaluk Fault. The Delta Fault responsible for the disastrous Tsagan earthquake of 1862 on the eastern shore of Lake Baikal runs in the NE direction along the Tvorogovo Village – Kudara Valley – Oblom Cape, at an average NW dip of 60° ( Fig. 1...