PROPAGATION OF THE WAVE OF TECTONIC STRESSES THROUGH THE EURASIAN PLATE IN 1978–83 Available to Purchase

This paper deals with the experimental data pointing to the propagation of the compression horizontal strain of about –10^–5 from the deep-sea trench through the interior of Japan, South Kuril and Sakhalin Islands from 1978–81. Then this event, displaced in time, was observed at the geophysical observatories of Tangshan, Novosibirsk, Moscow, Potsdam and piezometric wells near Ashkhabad, which allows its spreading velocity in the Eurasian plate lithosphere to be estimated at 2000 km/yr. Such compression was recorded at each observation point as a separate wave of about 3 years in duration. We think that this compression wave was generated by the Earth’s rotation acceleration from 1978–81, because a spectrum of the moving wave in continental regions of the plate is similar to the spectrum of this source.