Earthquakes in Switzerland and surrounding regions during 2003

Nicolas Deichmann; Manfred Baer; Jochen Braunmiller; Cécile Cornou; Donat Fäh; Domenico Giardini; Monika Gisler; Sarah Huber; Stephan Husen; Philipp Kästli; Urs Kradolfer; Martin Mai; Silvio Maraini; Ivo Oprsal; Thomas Schler; Danijel Schorlemmer; Stefan Wiemer; Jochen Wössner; Adrian Wyss

doi:10.1007/s00015-004-1135-4

Earthquakes in Switzerland and surrounding regions during 2003

Nicolas Deichmann^*, Manfred Baer, Jochen Braunmiller, Cécile Cornou, Donat Fäh, Domenico Giardini, Monika Gisler, Sarah Huber, Stephan Husen, Philipp Kästli, Urs Kradolfer, Martin Mai, Silvio Maraini, Ivo Oprsal, Thomas Schler, Danijel Schorlemmer, Stefan Wiemer, Jochen Wössner, Adrian Wyss

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This report of the Swiss Seismological Service summarizes the seismic activity in Switzerland and surrounding regions during 2003. During this period, 532 earthquakes and 118 quarry blasts were detected and located in the region under consideration. With 30 events with M_L ≥ 2.5, the seismic activity in the year 2003 was slightly above the average over the last 29 years. As in previous years, most of the seismic activity was concentrated in the Valais and in Graubünden. In addition, several earthquakes occurred along the northern front of the Alps. The strongest event, with M_L 4.0 and epicentral intensity V, occurred in the area of Urnerboden, on the border between the cantons Uri and Glarus. Two earthquakes with M_L 3.9 occurred in the Valais near the town of Salgesch and south of the Sanetsch Pass. In Graubünden, the Sertig valley south of Davos was the site of a sequence of 51 earthquakes that included three events with magnitudes between M_L 3.6 and 3.9.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	447-458
Number of pages	12
Journal	Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae
Volume	97
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00015-004-1135-4
State	Published - 2004
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Earthquakes
Focal mechanisms
Moment tensors
Switzerland

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Deichmann, N., Baer, M., Braunmiller, J., Cornou, C., Fäh, D., Giardini, D., Gisler, M., Huber, S., Husen, S., Kästli, P., Kradolfer, U., Mai, M., Maraini, S., Oprsal, I., Schler, T., Schorlemmer, D., Wiemer, S., Wössner, J., & Wyss, A. (2004). Earthquakes in Switzerland and surrounding regions during 2003. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 97(3), 447-458. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00015-004-1135-4

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