Projektnummer

0056322

Zusammenfassung

The project contributes to quantifying, and eventually mitigating, earthquake risk at selected sites along the northern Kyrgyz Tien Shan, and the Hangay mountains, Mongolia. These study areas connect along a line that roughly defines the northernmost deformation front of the Himalayan mountain-building process. The key objective is to elucidate the timing and magnitude of large to very large intraplate earthquakes together with some of their geomorphic consequences, which occurred before any systematic or instrumental records began. Such information is essential to establishing functio...