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| | MOSCOW GSHAP REGONAL CENTER CONTRIBUTION |
 | | Beginning in 1993 the GSHAP Regional Centers for Northern Eurasia (UIPE, Moscow) and for the Middle East (IIEES, Tehran) have joined efforts in the Crimea-Caucasus-Kopetdagh test area, together with the seismological institutions from the Caucasian republics, Russia, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Turkey and Iran (Balassanian et al., 1999). |
 | | Northern Eurasia covers a vast area, characterized by the intense interactions between several major lithospheric plates and continental blocks: Northern Eurasia, Arabia, Africa, India, E. China, North-America, Pacific. |
 | | The heterogeneity of the tectonic structure over such a vast area is present at different scales, starting with the Earth crustal scale and ending in small regional subdivisions; it is then necessary to investigate tectonic objects of different hierarchical rank and to distinguish their static and dynamic characteristics. |
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