Abstract. Based on the seismic moment tensor (SMT) data of 270 earthquakes in the Central Tien Shan, which occurred from 1978 to 2021 and include 63 events from the Global Centroid Moment Tensor catalog and 207 events from the works of Aleksander D. Kostyuk and Naylya A. Sycheva, the focal parameters (seismotectonic deformations (STD), kinematic and dynamic parameters, source radius, and stress drop) were calculated. The STD calculation was based on the approaches proposed in the studies of Yuriy V. Riznichenko and Sergei L. Yunga. The area under consideration is characterized by such deformation modes as thrust, transpression, underpression, and oblique. The distribution of the Lode–Nadai coefficient was calculated and plotted. A significant part of the study area is characterized by simple compression deformation, dominated by simple compression and simple shear. To calculate the stress drop ??, the values of the scalar seismic moment M0, which are determined in the SMT calculation, and the source radii r, which are calculated on the basis of theoretical and experimental models of the dependence of the source radius on the moment magnitude, were used. The radii r and stress drops ?? were calculated for two models of earthquake sources: the Brune model and the Madariaga–Kaneko–Shearer model. A catalog of dynamic parameters was compiled. The comparison of the kinematic and dynamic parameters of earthquakes was carried out, and the relationship of the dropped stresses with the type of movement in the source, as well as with the Lode–Nadai coefficient, was established. The results obtained in the study can be useful for specialists in other fields of knowledge – geodesy, geology, and geophysics.

For citation: Sycheva N.A. Seismotectonic deformations and stress drop of earthquakes of Central Tien Shan. Geosistemy perehodnykh zon = Geosystems of Transition Zones, 2024, vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 174–200. (In Russ., abstr. in Engl.).
https://doi.org/10.30730/gtrz.2024.8.3.174-200, https://www.elibrary.ru/lmyvyk

Для цитирования: Сычева Н.А. Сейсмотектонические деформации и сброшенные напряжения землетрясений Центрального Тянь-Шаня. Геосистемы переходных зон, 2024, т. 8, № 3, с. 174–200.
https://doi.org/10.30730/gtrz.2024.8.3.174-200, https://www.elibrary.ru/lmyvyk

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