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On traces of strong late-medieval earthquakes at Uzbek Madrasah-Mosque Complex (Staryi Krym town)
1 Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
2 Research Center on History and Archeology of Crimea, Vernadskii Crimean Federal University, Simferopol, Republic of Crimea, Russia
2 Research Center on History and Archeology of Crimea, Vernadskii Crimean Federal University, Simferopol, Republic of Crimea, Russia
Journal: Geophysical processes and biosphere
Tome: 16
Number: 3
Year: 2017
Pages: 5-28
UDK: 550.3
DOI: 10.21455/GPB2017.3-1
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Korzhenkov A., Lomakin D., Ovsyuchenko A., Lar’kov A., Marakhanov A., Rogozhin E. On traces of strong late-medieval earthquakes at Uzbek Madrasah-Mosque Complex (Staryi Krym town) // . 2017. Т. 16. № 3. С. 5-28. DOI: 10.21455/GPB2017.3-1
@article{KorzhenkovOn2017,
author = "Korzhenkov, A. and Lomakin, D. and Ovsyuchenko, A. and Lar’kov, A. and Marakhanov, A. and Rogozhin, E.",
title = "On traces of strong late-medieval earthquakes at Uzbek Madrasah-Mosque Complex (Staryi Krym town)",
journal = "Geophysical processes and biosphere",
year = 2017,
volume = "16",
number = "3",
pages = "5-28",
doi = "10.21455/GPB2017.3-1",
language = "English"
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Keywords: Uzbek madrasah-mosque, medieval ages, seismic deformations, kinematic indicators, Staryi Krym town, Solkhat, Crimean Peninsula
Аnnotation: The results are presented of archaeoseismological investigations of medieval architectural monuments - the Uzbek Mosque and the Indzhi-Bey-Khatun Madrasah (Uzbek Madrasah-Mosque Complex) - in Staryi Krym Town in the east of the Crimean Peninsula. The character of revealed destructions and collapses unambiguously indicates their seismic origin. Local seismic intensity was apparently VIII ≤ I ≤ IX by MSK-64 scale. Using the obtained data, we revealed traces of at least two significant seismic events. According to the results of archaeological study, the first one occurred at the beginning of the XV century. Possibly, this was the Yalta earthquake of 1423. The maximum summary seismic effect was then directed along the sub-meridional axis. The second strong earthquake occurred later. According to the preserved illustrations and photographs, it occurred in the XIX century, in the period from 1797 to 1888-1889(?). The maximum summary seismic effect of the later earthquake was directed along WNW-ESE axis. The Yalta earthquakes of 1927 did not cause any significant damages either in the mosque or in the madrasah.
