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Udintsev Transform

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  • 56.153°S
  • 143.373°W

  • -5700 m
    -18701 ft

  • 335030
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Most Recent Bulletin Report: December 1990 (BGVN 15:12) Citation IconCite this Report

T-waves near Udintsev Fracture Zone/Pacific-Antarctic Rise junction

RSP stations detected acoustic signals (T-waves) from 42 seismic events between 29 October and 1 November, and 523 on 15-19 November. The strongest shocks reached mb 5.3 on 29 October at 0643 GMT and 1 November at 0157 GMT. Preliminary WWSSN epicenter determinations were at 55.96°S, 143.20°W and 55.979°S, 143.15°W, with latitude uncertainties of ± 23 and 16 km, respectively. The located events occurred along a young, seismically active portion of the Udintsev Fracture Zone (Molnar and others, 1975) near its intersection with the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge (figure 1). Talandier notes that "it is possible that this crisis is linked to volcanic activity." Bathymetric data for this region are very limited, and seismic stations are distant, with WWSSN detection thresholds of about M 5.

Figure (see Caption) Figure 1. Computer-generated bathymetric map of a portion of the S-central Pacific, showing the Eltanin and Udintsev Fracture Zone systems, and the prominent seamount at about 53.9°S, 140.3°W in the epicentral area of the March 1991 swarm. Contour interval, 200 m. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

Reference. Molnar, P., Atwater, T., Mammerickx, J., and Smith, S.M., 1975, Magnetic anomalies, bathymetry and the tectonic evolution of the south Pacific since the Late Cretaceous: Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 40, p. 383-420.

Information Contacts: J. Talandier, LDG Tahiti; E. Bergman, NEIC.

The Global Volcanism Program has no Weekly Reports available for Udintsev Transform.

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12/1990 (BGVN 15:12) T-waves near Udintsev Fracture Zone/Pacific-Antarctic Rise junction




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December 1990 (BGVN 15:12) Citation IconCite this Report

T-waves near Udintsev Fracture Zone/Pacific-Antarctic Rise junction

RSP stations detected acoustic signals (T-waves) from 42 seismic events between 29 October and 1 November, and 523 on 15-19 November. The strongest shocks reached mb 5.3 on 29 October at 0643 GMT and 1 November at 0157 GMT. Preliminary WWSSN epicenter determinations were at 55.96°S, 143.20°W and 55.979°S, 143.15°W, with latitude uncertainties of ± 23 and 16 km, respectively. The located events occurred along a young, seismically active portion of the Udintsev Fracture Zone (Molnar and others, 1975) near its intersection with the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge (figure 1). Talandier notes that "it is possible that this crisis is linked to volcanic activity." Bathymetric data for this region are very limited, and seismic stations are distant, with WWSSN detection thresholds of about M 5.

Figure (see Caption) Figure 1. Computer-generated bathymetric map of a portion of the S-central Pacific, showing the Eltanin and Udintsev Fracture Zone systems, and the prominent seamount at about 53.9°S, 140.3°W in the epicentral area of the March 1991 swarm. Contour interval, 200 m. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

Reference. Molnar, P., Atwater, T., Mammerickx, J., and Smith, S.M., 1975, Magnetic anomalies, bathymetry and the tectonic evolution of the south Pacific since the Late Cretaceous: Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 40, p. 383-420.

Information Contacts: J. Talandier, LDG Tahiti; E. Bergman, NEIC.

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Eruptive History

There is data available for 0 confirmed Holocene eruptive periods.

[ 1990 Oct 29 - 1990 Nov 19 ] Uncertain Eruption

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Udinstev Fracture Zone
1990 Oct 29 - 1990 Nov 19 Evidence from Unknown

List of 1 Events for Episode 1 at Udinstev Fracture Zone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
1990 Oct 29    - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index)
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