2026-06-27T08:07:54Zhttp://doidb.wdc-terra.org/oaip/oaioai:doidb.wdc-terra.org:73332026-06-10T10:16:55ZDOIDBDOIDB.FIDfalse4DOIDB.FID
10.5880/fidgeo.2022.007
Bloch, Wasja
Wasja
Bloch
0000-0002-0341-4925
Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Schurr, Bernd
Bernd
Schurr
0000-0002-3746-9166
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosiences, Potsdam, Germany
Yuan, Xiaohui
Xiaohui
Yuan
0000-0002-2891-1354
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosiences, Potsdam, Germany
Xu, Qiang
Qiang
Xu
0000-0001-6506-2745
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Zhao, Junmeng
Junmeng
Zhao
0000-0003-2713-153X
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Murodkulov, Shokhruhk
Shokhruhk
Murodkulov
0000-0003-2212-9887
Institute of Geology, Earthquake Engineering and Seismology of the Academy Science of the Republic of Tajikistan
Oimuhammadzoda, Ilhomjon
Ilhomjon
Oimuhammadzoda
0000-0002-8292-4359
Tajikistan Academy of Sciences
Earthquake and Moment Tensor Catalogs of the 2015-2017 Pamir Earthquake Sequence
GFZ Data Services
2022
Pamir
Tajikistan
China
Xingjiang
disaster > natural disaster > geological disaster
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > EARTHQUAKES > EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE/INTENSITY
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > EARTHQUAKES > EARTHQUAKE OCCURRENCES
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > NEOTECTONICS
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > PLATE TECTONICS > FAULT MOVEMENT > FAULT MOVEMENT DIRECTION
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > PLATE TECTONICS > STRESS
environment > geophysical environment
geological process > seismic activity > earthquake
land > world > Asia > Central Asia
physical process > diffusion
Bloch, Wasja
Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Schurr, Bernd
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosiences, Potsdam, Germany
Yuan, Xiaohui
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosiences, Potsdam, Germany
2015-08-01/2017-05-01
Dataset
10.1093/gji/ggac473
http://faldersons.net/Publications/Text/PhDFAldersons.pdf
10.1029/2018GL078793
10.2312/GFZ.NMSOP-2_IS_3.3
10.1785/BSSA0710040959
10.1016/j.proeng.2017.05.234
10.1785/0120080019
10.3133/ofr72224
10.1029/93JB03138
10.1088/1749-4699/8/1/014003
10.1029/94GL02760
10.11998/SeisDmc/SN
10.1016/j.epsl.2013.10.013
10.7914/SN/TJ
10.1785/0120000006
10.14470/3U7560589977
10.14470/4U7561589984
10.5880/fidgeo.2026.006
2.0
CC BY 4.0
A sequence of three strong (M W 7.2–6.4) and several moderate (M W 4.4–5.7) earthquakes struck the Pamir Plateau and surrounding mountain ranges of Tajikistan, China, and Kyrgyzstan in 2015–2017. With a local seismic network in operation in the Xinjiang province since August 2015, an aftershock network on the Pamir Plateau of Tajikistan since February 2016, and additional permanent regional seismic stations, we were able to record the succession of the fore-, main-, and aftershock sequences at local distances with good azimuthal coverage. We located 11,784 seismic events and determined the moment tensor for 33 earthquakes. The seismicity delineates the major tectonic structures of the Pamir, i.e., the thrusts that absorb shortening along the plateau thrust front, and the strike-slip and normal faults that dissect the Plateau into a westward extruding and a northward advancing block. Fault ruptures were activated subsequently at increasing distances from the initial M W 7.2 Sarez. All mainshock areas but the initial one exhibited foreshock seismicity which was not modulated by the occurrence of the earlier earthquakes.
The tabular ASCII data of the seismic event catalog consist of origin date, time, location, depth and magnitude of the events, along with the quality measures: number of P- and S-wave arrival time picks, location root-mean-square misfit and localization method.
The tabular ASCII data of the moment tensor catalog consist of origin date, time, location, the six
independent components of the moment tensor, the moment magnitude, and the orientation of the preferred fault plane parameterized as fault strike, dip and rake.
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Version history:
2026-01-31: Version 2.0
Exchange of the file "2022-007_Bloch-et-al_moment_tensor_catalog.txt" with the new file "2022-007_Bloch-et-al_moment_tensor_catalog_correct_norm_v2.0.txt". The original file is available in the "previous-versions" folder.
Reason: The normalization of the components of the moment tensor (columns mrr, mtt, mff, mrt, mrf, mtf, exp) was incorrect so that the resulting moment tensor had a too large absolute moment. The reported moment magnitude and the relative scaling of the moment tensor components was correct, thought.
Study area
71.4
77
37.2
40
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
http://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347
03G0878A
CaTeNA
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
http://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347
03G0878B
CaTeNA
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
http://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
RA 442/41