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Title: Effect of geodynamics on the reliability of the dam behind the Chirkey hydroelectric power plant

Journal Article · · Hydrotechnical Construction
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01545608· OSTI ID:107712

The chirkey hydraulic facility is located in the territory of one of the most seismically active sections of the Caucasus - the Dagestan wedge seismofocal region (SFR). Large-scale paleoseismodeformations have been observed here, and a series of destructive earthquakes with magnitudes of 5.3-6.7 and intensities of 7-8 ponts occurred in 1970 through 1976.

Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
OSTI ID:
107712
Journal Information:
Hydrotechnical Construction, Vol. 28, Issue 5; Other Information: PBD: Nov 1994; TN: Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stoitel`stvo; No. 5, 30-35(May 1994)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English