Earthquake on September 21. The procedure for issuing a ruling to refuse to initiate a case regarding an administrative offense
Disputes about seismic tremors in the Kaliningrad region are still ongoing. Both Russian and Belarusian scientists took part in the study of the unique natural phenomenon
Photo: Seismologist Felix Aptikaev (IPZ RAS)
Disputes about seismic tremors in the Kaliningrad region are still ongoing. Both Russian and Belarusian specialists took part in the study of the unique natural phenomenon.The seismic surge in the Kaliningrad region in 2004 surprised not only residents, but also the expert community.
Scientists from the Institute of Earth Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPZ RAS) investigated the causes and consequences of this geophysical event. Seismologists from the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus took part in a large collective work, continuing to exchange information and prepare joint publications with Russian colleagues.
By the way, the first data on a unique earthquake were obtained, among other things, from a seismic station located on a granite shield in western Belarus. A complete reconstruction, as the head of the group of seismologists, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences Andrei Nikonov from the Institute of Physical Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, says, became possible precisely thanks to the deployed hardware network in the salt mines of the Union State.
So, on September 21, three tremors were recorded by seismic stations - at 11.05, 13.32 and 13.36 GMT. The complete surprise of the event and the unpreparedness of residents for such phenomena raised a lot of questions.
We have at least 30 publications on the Kaliningrad earthquake, on various aspects, including assessment of future seismic hazard,” notes Andrey Nikonov. “Belarus and the Baltic states were greatly affected,” says the scientist, “as a result, maps were built for each of the shocks, which also affected the territory of Poland.
The Kaliningrad earthquake was purely tectonic, it is typical in literally all manifestations, experts say: no artificial factors were detected. The famous seismologist Felix Aptikaev (IPZ RAS), who traveled to the region immediately after the earthquake, notes that “the intensity of the earthquake can be estimated at 6.5 points.”
Instrumental and macroseismic assessments of the position of the epicenters of the main shocks of the Kaliningrad earthquake of September 21, 2004.
Felix Aptikaev claims that the epicenter of the earthquake was on the Baltic shelf:
“Sailors from the ships saw how the water boiled in this zone,” says the scientist, “even a small tsunami arose.
Aptikaev cited interesting facts preceding the event and associated with the unusual behavior of animals. For example, a female elephant in the Kaliningrad zoo, a few hours before the earthquake, turned to the enclosure and began hitting the fence, trying to get out.
These and other data confirm the special sensitivity of the animal world to natural phenomena. Seismologists around the world have long been interested in the response of animals to the intensity and changes of electromagnetic pulses that occur in rocks under stress. Many modern researchers are studying this topic, including Professor Motodozi Ikeya from Osaka University, who recently published a general monograph “Earthquakes and Animals.”
Cracks on the facade of a house in Kaliningrad after an earthquake
Having studied written sources, Andrei Nikonov notes that “a similar explosion of seismic activity occurred in this region 700 years ago, in 1302.” He cites references to a medieval chronicler, who went down in history under the name Peter of Duisburg (15th century), who wrote about the “terrible shaking” of the earth. Then, in 1328, old houses were in danger of collapse in Memelburg (now Klaipeda). And even earlier, in 1302, “in the Prussian land,” or rather in the Curonian Lagoon, “a miracle appeared.” When the army of the German Order crossed the thin ice of the bay in the fall, the ice suddenly began to rise and fall, “like water in a storm,” and the people on the ice “either climbed onto the ice like a mountain, then fell as if into an abyss.”
There are also earlier reports of strong movements of the earth's surface in the vicinity of modern Kaliningrad, dating back to the 6th century. From this we can make assumptions about the interval of such events, which are significant for long-term expectations and for seismic zoning maps and, especially, for strategic objects,” summarizes Andrei Nikonov. And it reminds us that joint research by Russian and Belarusian scientists in this and related topics of modern geophysics continues.
Maxim Tuzhikov (IPZ RAS)
In the photo at the beginning of the text, Felix Aptikaev (IPZ RAS)
Birthday number 9 symbolizes a strong personality with potential intelligence, capable of high development. Here, success is given by the world of art and the arts, artistic talent and creative, creative power.
It is better for such people to immediately abandon the professions of a businessman, metallurgist, or military man. Their problem often lies in realizing their talents and abilities and choosing the right path in life.
The number 9 is often considered the main number of numerology, with a special, sometimes even sacred meaning. This is due to the fact that when multiplied by any number, nine reproduces itself. For example, 9 x 4 = 36 => 3 + 6 = 9. These people are capable of the best feelings towards loved ones. But they often find themselves in all sorts of unpleasant situations.
Lucky day of the week for number 9 is Friday.
Your planet is Neptune.
Advice: Great inventors, discoverers of new things, and musicians are born under this birthday number. It all depends on your abilities and desires. Both of these factors should be combined and directed towards one goal - then success is guaranteed.
Important: Love for people, striving for excellence.
Nine gives a person spiritual activity and promotes higher mental activity.
A Nine person is prone to religious revelations, cosmic contacts, synthetic sciences, and self-education. Patron of composers and musicians, sailors and poets, psychologists and hypnotists.
The fate of such a person can be changeable and fickle. Among the people of Nine there are many revolutionaries, drug addicts and alcoholics.
Love and sex:
These people give themselves completely to love and passionately desire to be loved. Their thirst for love is so great that they are ready to do anything for it, even humiliation.
Great importance is attached to the paraphernalia of romantic courtship. At the same time, they quickly lose interest in the object of their attraction if he (or she) does not succumb to temptation for a long time.
In many cases, marriage with these people is successful, if only because they are very sexy people. They take the issue of morality seriously. At some stage, these people may want to reconsider the marriage relationship, even if the family is happy and there is love between the spouses.
They will want to know why they love each other. After this, they will wish to see confirmation of love every day.
Birth number for a woman
Birth number 9 for a woman An extraordinary, elusive woman, always full of interesting ideas, always on the move. Prefers to communicate with educated and intelligent people, creative individuals whose interests lie in the field of philosophy, culture and art. She likes to go with her friend to all kinds of exhibitions and take part in public, social or political life. She expects a sea of flowers and gifts from fans. A candlelight dinner in a formal setting has an intoxicating effect on her and leads to the creation of a lasting union. In relationships with a partner, he always strives to teach or demonstrate knowledge. She needs beauty, and she herself wants to be beautiful in every way. He takes care of his appearance, but at home he allows himself to dress in anything. She must be loved without regard to conventions. She hates possessive instincts and acquisitiveness in all its forms. She enjoys an informal lifestyle and the company of many friends. Always unpredictable. Has a tendency to get involved with men she doesn't really need. She can dissolve in love for her chosen one, give herself completely to him, or never know what love is and whether it was love. She can have a good long-term relationship with a partner who is undemanding to her and creates material comfort and a sense of freedom for her.Birth number for a man
Birth number 9 for a man This is an intellectual, romantic, very erudite man. He is sociable, frank, lives with an open heart. Intellectual and spiritual communication becomes the main thing in relationships with him. He strives for people who have decided, who have found their self-expression. Strictly adheres to his beliefs; ideological differences can become an insurmountable obstacle in relationships. Love is something that happens more in his head than in his heart. He tries to control his own and his partner’s feelings with his mind. Makes high demands on his chosen one. She carefully plans meetings, thinking through all the details, and tries to use seduction methods that were used back in the 18th century. Values respect and honesty with each other. Usually confident in his correctness and the high quality of his knowledge. His main problem is separation from reality and lack of restraint. He tends to avoid real intimacy in intimate relationships. It is important for him to maintain his freedom and the feeling that he belongs only to himself. Believes that sex is a physical continuation of intellectual communication between the sexes. Love is most often found while traveling. He is very sensitive, and can sacrifice his own needs for the sake of his partner. A relationship with him can turn into a delightful romance, but he needs to learn to see a real person in his woman.Birth number 21
On the one hand, there are dreamers with a rich imagination, sensitivity, and artistry. On the other hand, there are leaders, strong personalities. In all respects this is a good combination. They can be successful in life and implement their plans. Their emotional life is full.
Sexually, they are average people with a tendency towards romance. They can be wonderful lovers. Gets along well with most people. Their partners need to be their support. Spouses should feel their mood and not demand much in sex.
They are often quick-tempered and make enemies. Their romanticism and penchant for daydreaming often leads to disappointment and despondency. They should develop confidence and will.
The weak point is the stomach.
Pythagorean square or psychomatrix
The qualities listed in the cells of the square can be strong, average, weak or absent, it all depends on the number of numbers in the cell.
Decoding the Pythagorean Square (cells of the square)
Character, willpower - 3
Energy, charisma - 2
Cognition, creativity - 0
Health, beauty - 2
Logic, intuition - 1
Hard work, skill - 0
Luck, luck - 0
Sense of duty - 1
Memory, mind - 2
Decoding the Pythagorean Square (rows, columns and diagonals of the square)
The higher the value, the more pronounced the quality.
Self-esteem (column “1-2-3”) - 5
Making money (column “4-5-6”) - 3
Talent potential (column “7-8-9”) - 3
Determination (line “1-4-7”) - 5
Family (line “2-5-8”) - 4
Stability (line “3-6-9”) - 2
Spiritual potential (diagonal “1-5-9”) - 6
Temperament (diagonal “3-5-7”) - 1
Chinese zodiac sign Monkey
Every 2 years the Element of the year changes (fire, earth, metal, water, wood). The Chinese astrological system divides years into active, stormy (Yang) and passive, calm (Yin).
You Monkey elements Tree of the year Ian
Birth hours
24 hours correspond to the twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac. The sign of the Chinese horoscope of birth corresponds to the time of birth, so it is very important to know the exact time of birth; it has a strong impact on a person’s character. It is argued that by looking at your birth horoscope you can accurately determine the characteristics of your character.
The most striking manifestation of the qualities of the hour of birth will occur if the symbol of the hour of birth coincides with the symbol of the year. For example, a person born in the year and hour of the Horse will display maximum qualities prescribed for this sign.
- Rat – 23:00 – 01:00
- Bull – 1:00 – 3:00
- Tiger – 3:00 – 5:00
- Rabbit – 5:00 – 7:00
- Dragon – 7:00 – 9:00
- Snake – 09:00 – 11:00
- Horse – 11:00 – 13:00
- Goat – 13:00 – 15:00
- Monkey – 15:00 – 17:00
- Rooster – 17:00 – 19:00
- Dog – 19:00 – 21:00
- Pig – 21:00 – 23:00
European zodiac sign Virgo
Dates: 2013-08-23 -2013-09-23
The four Elements and their Signs are distributed as follows: Fire(Aries, Leo and Sagittarius), Earth(Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn) Air(Gemini, Libra and Aquarius) and Water(Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces). Since the elements help to describe the main character traits of a person, by including them in our horoscope, they help to form a more complete picture of a particular person.
The characteristics of this element are cold and dryness, metaphysical matter, strength and density. In the Zodiac, this element is represented by the earth's trine (triangle): Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn. The Earth trine is considered a materialistic trine. Principle: stability.
The earth creates forms, laws, gives concreteness, stability, stability. The earth structures, analyzes, classifies, creates the foundation. She is characterized by such qualities as inertia, confidence, practicality, reliability, patience, rigor. In the body, the Earth gives inhibition, petrification through contraction and compression, and slows down the metabolic process.
People whose horoscopes express the element of Earth have a melancholic temperament. These are people of sober reason and prudence, very practical and businesslike. The goal of their life is always real and achievable, and the path to this goal is outlined already in their young years. If they deviate from their goal, it is very slightly and then more due to internal reasons than external ones. People of this trine achieve success thanks to such excellent character traits as perseverance, perseverance, endurance, endurance, determination, and steadfastness. They do not have such imagination and a bright, lively imagination as the signs of the Water trine, they do not have utopian ideas like the signs of Fire, but they persistently pursue their goal and always achieve it. They choose the path of least external resistance, and when obstacles arise, they mobilize their strength and energy to overcome everything that prevents them from achieving their intended goal.
People of the Earth element strive for mastery of matter. The creation of material values brings them true satisfaction, and the results of their work delight their soul. All the goals that they set for themselves must first of all bring them benefit and material gain. If the majority of planets are in the Earth's trine, such principles will apply to all areas of life, including love and marriage.
People with a predominance of the Earth element stand firmly on their feet and prefer stability, moderation, and consistency. They love a sedentary lifestyle, attached to home, property and homeland. Periods of growth and prosperity are followed by crises, which can be long-lasting due to the inertia of the Earth’s trine. It is this inertia that does not allow them to quickly switch to a new type of activity or relationship. This shows their limited ability to adapt to anyone or anything, with the exception of the sign of Virgo.
People with a pronounced Earth element usually choose a profession related to material values, money or business. They often have “golden hands”, they are excellent craftsmen, and can be successful in applied sciences and applied arts. They are patient, submissive to circumstances, sometimes take a wait-and-see attitude, but do not forget about their daily bread. Everything is done with one goal - to improve your physical existence on earth. There will also be concern for the soul, but this will happen from case to case. All of the above is easily achievable for them, provided that their energy is not spent on such negative character traits as ultra-egoism, excessive prudence, self-interest and greed.
Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces. The mutable cross is the cross of reason, connection, adaptation, distribution. The main quality is the transformation of ideas. He is always here and now, that is, in the present. It gives mobility, flexibility, adaptability, flexibility, duality. People in whose horoscopes the Sun, Moon or most of the personal planets are in mutable signs have diplomatic abilities. They have a flexible mind and subtle intuition. They are usually very careful, prudent, vigilant and constantly in a state of anticipation, which helps them adapt to any situation. The main thing for them is to have information. When they feel not very competent or informed in any matter, they are excellent at evading and dodging everyone and everything, although they are considered the most knowledgeable of the entire Zodiac. They are sociable, courteous, talkative, and interesting conversationalists. They easily and skillfully give up positions, admit their mistakes and blunders, and agree with their opponents and interlocutors. People with a mutable cross strive for internal harmony, agreement, mediation and cooperation, but are subject to strong internal anxiety and outside influence. Their greatest passion is curiosity, which forces them to be in constant motion. Their views and worldview are rather unstable and depend on the environment. They often lack their own point of view. This partly explains the reasons for their imbalance and inconstancy, the changes in their lives. The true goals and plans of these people are difficult to predict, but they almost accurately guess the plans of others. They take advantage of every opportunity that can bring them benefit or profit, and skillfully manage to circumvent the blows of fate. People with a mutable cross are born realists. To achieve their goal, they use numerous friends, acquaintances, neighbors, relatives, co-workers, even strangers. Life crises are easily experienced and quickly forgotten. If there is no direct path to a life goal, then they will take a circuitous path, thinking through every step, avoiding all visible sharp corners, avoiding all pitfalls. What helps them is their natural cunning and slyness, flattery and deception, and ability to deceive. Mutable signs will help out of any abnormal, unusual situation; such a situation will not make them nervous, they will only feel their element, in which they can finally act. At the same time, their psyche and nervous system are very unstable. Serious obstacles can quickly incapacitate them, unsettle them and delay the achievement of their goals. In this case, they do not resist, but go with the flow.
Virgo is the sign of the element of Earth, which here gives stability, strength and fundamentality. Its main formative planets are Proserpina and Mercury. The element Earth in Virgo is very static, so Virgos can be characterized by extreme conservatism, strong rationalism, scrupulousness and pedantry. From Mercury, Virgos have prudence and perception of everything through the mental plane. Virgos are capable of remembering very large amounts of information and can process and analyze this information almost accurately. However, sometimes they lack creative initiative and intuition, that is, those main qualities that are necessary for creative synthesis.
Virgo, as a rule, is an excellent analyst, but they are usually weak in synthesis, so among Virgos you can find many experimental scientists and picky researchers who delve into details and build their system from small facts (For example, Butlerov, Rutherfod, Galvani, Faraday , Darwin). Among the Virgos we also find compilers of dictionaries - Brockhaus, Vladimir Dal. There are also Virgo writers, very gifted and who created monumental works - Goethe, L. Tolstoy.
Born under the sign of Virgo, you can be a philosopher, as you have a fairly strong mentality. In general, you study well and perceive any information. You can achieve great heights with hard work and consistency. For you, perhaps harmony consists of many small details and individual components, that is, harmony for you consists of little things. Therefore, you can be a good statistician, accountant or librarian.
In the case of low spiritual development, in the worst case, qualities such as coldness and rationality may appear. An example of a strong Virgo logician is Hegel, whose iron logic to some extent compensated for his low abilities for synthesis. At worst, you can be a dry pedant, but still with some creativity.
Among Virgos we also find people with a “small man” complex. They are very efficient and honest, they never get into trouble and do not conflict with their environment. Gogol loved and described such people very much. Your worst traits in the case of a low level are service and servility, manifested in communication, and at the same time strong self-interest, which you may be guided by.
In the case of the average level, Virgos are most often selfless. Some tediousness and pedantry are characteristic of you in any case, even at the highest level of development. At the highest level, you are full of information and are a living walking dictionary, very erudite. It’s better not to argue with you - you can crush them with your erudition. In general, you probably love it when people admire your intelligence and abilities, and work for you is probably the most important thing in life.
Your innermost essence and development system is analysis, and you develop through the analysis of everything. You build your system from small details, and in its highest manifestations, realizing the vibrations and qualities of Proserpina, you build a kind of supersystem, which is sometimes understandable only to you alone, that is, it is ahead of its time. Your main problem is the problem of “taming” your talkativeness, as well as the possibility of directly expressing your feelings. As a rule, you have a Venus complex - love is given to you with great difficulty, because you perceive feelings and emotions mentally, through the mind. This may cause you to experience coldness in love, coldness in general, tightness and complexes. You sometimes suffer in your personal life or your family life does not work out very well, you may well be a bachelor or an old maid.
When raising children with the Sun in Virgo, special attention must be paid to aesthetics, because in the worst case, the lack of Venusian qualities can lead to the fact that they go to the other extreme: from coldness to complete debauchery. Virgos begin to explore love from a mental point of view, becoming cold experimenters in love and sex. For example, you can choose your partner by zodiac sign, by degree, by decade and experiment with what and how it will turn out, that is, you follow a harsh practical path.
Your karmic task is to do the most difficult and difficult work on earth, the most thankless work that all other signs of the Zodiac provide it with. Therefore, you can work in hospitals: as a nurse, a nurse, a surgeon, where there is a lot of sewage and dirt - you tolerate everything easily, you are not squeamish. You belong to a very responsible, serious and high zodiac sign.
Among the countries under the sign of Virgo are Germany, primarily Prussia, where pedantry, accuracy and precision were very high. Japan is also the country of Virgo, where details are developed very precisely and in detail, unique instruments are created, very small and precise.
Among the Virgos was Tomaso Campanella, a man with amazing powers of regeneration.
Famous Virgos: Arafat, Botkin, Gaft, Galvani, Hegel, Goethe, Gere, Gamzatov, Humboldt, Gundareva, Helmholtz, Garbo, O'Henry, Ivan the Terrible, Dolina, Doronina, Jackson, Dovlatov, Dzerzhinsky, Dvorak, Jean-Michel Jarre , Zemfira, Sean Connery, Kobzon, Kuprin, Cooper, Christie, Kutuzov, Karelin, Copperfield, Kostolevsky, Kosmodemyanskaya, Leonov, Mercury, Mother Teresa, Lauren, Lagerfeld, Lem, Levitan, Mitkova, Montoya, Proklova, Pinkerton, Ranevskaya, Rosenbaum , Reeves, Rutherfod, Rodnina, Rutskoy, Rourke, Richelieu, Spivakov, L. Tolstoy, A. Tolstoy, Terekhova, Wells, Farmer, Faraday, Zeiss, Schiffer, Ingres, Yablochkov.
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Latitude: 55.75, Longitude: 37.62 Time zone: Europe/Moscow (UTC+04:00) Calculation of the moon phase as of September 1, 2004 (12:00) To calculate the phase of the moon for your city, register or log in.
Characteristics of the Moon on September 21, 2004
On the date 21.09.2004 V 12:00 The moon is in phase “First quarter (to begin on 09/21/2004 at 19:55)”. This 7th lunar day in the lunar calendar. Moon in zodiac sign Sagittarius ♐. Illumination percentage Moon is 46%. Sunrise Moon at 16:35, and sunset at 22:03.
Chronology of lunar days
- 7th lunar day from 15:10 09/20/2004 to 16:35 09/21/2004
- 8th lunar day from 16:35 09/21/2004 until the next day
Moon influence September 21, 2004
Moon in the zodiac sign Sagittarius (+)
Moon in a sign Sagittarius. Lunar Sagittarius somewhat takes our thought processes away from earthly logic and specifics into the realm of abstract thinking.
However, despite this, the period is ideal for resolving issues related to jurisprudence and any legal issues. You can safely submit an application to the registration authorities to create legal entities, public organizations or subsidiaries.
Any bureaucratic issues at this time are resolved surprisingly easily, almost by themselves. All kinds of travel and business trips will also be successful and will take place without any negative incidents. However, you should beware of transactions related to land or construction.
7th lunar day (+)
September 21, 2004 at 12:00 - 7th lunar day. Provided there is a high level of self-organization, attentiveness and a responsible attitude to the words spoken, this period will be very fruitful for business activity.
Ideas that arose the day before can receive significant support from other people - close relatives or newly acquired acquaintances.
First quarter (+)
The moon is in phase First quarter. The most favorable time for various kinds of undertakings. Any business, the implementation of which began with the growth of the Moon, acquires additional impetus and energy for its development.
In medical terms, the effect of the growth of the lunar disc is somewhat negative, since the healing rate of damaged tissue slows down, which can lead to some complications.
Influence of the day of the week (+)
Day of the week - Tuesday, this day is under the protection of Mars, so it is full of energy. Good luck awaits strong, strong-willed people in whom energy is in full swing.
If you develop vigorous activity on this day, success awaits you. However, on Tuesday it can be difficult to concentrate and choose the right path to solve the problem. But if you have thought about everything in advance, then go ahead, without a shadow of a doubt!
This is a suitable day for physical activity (athletes and summer residents should take note of this). The energy you expended will be easily and quickly restored. For those who are engaged only in mental work on this day, it is useful to alternate intellectual exercises with exercises.
STATE CUSTOMS COMMITTEE
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
(as amended September 21, 2004)
Declared invalid on the basis
Letters of the Federal Customs Service of Russia dated April 28, 2007 N 01-06/16201
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Document with changes made:
by letter from the Federal Customs Service of Russia.
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In order to ensure a uniform approach to the application of parts 2, 5 of Article 28.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of Russia, we are sending methodological recommendations of the Russian Federation containing events for use in work.
When organizing the work of receiving, recording and reviewing the specified materials, messages, and applications received by the customs authorities of the Russian Federation, the heads of customs authorities must ensure unconditional compliance with the provisions of the methodological recommendations.
Secretary of State -
vice-chairman
State Customs
Committee of the Russian Federation -
Colonel General
customs service
Yu.F. Azarov
Application. Methodological recommendations on the procedure for receiving, recording and considering data received by the customs authorities indicating the presence of
Application
to the letter of the State
Customs Committee of the Russian Federation
dated August 28, 2002 N 01-06/34816
1. General Provisions
1. Methodological recommendations were developed on the basis of Chapter 28 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses (hereinafter referred to as the Code) and determine for the customs authorities of the Russian Federation the procedure for receiving, recording and considering materials, messages, statements received by the customs authorities of the Russian Federation, in the absence of an administrative offense event (hereinafter referred to as information about the AP).
2. In the methodological recommendations, an administrative offense (hereinafter referred to as an administrative violation) is understood as an action (inaction) of an individual or legal entity for which administrative liability is established by the Code, for which customs officials are authorized to draw up a protocol on the administrative violation and conduct an administrative investigation.
3. The basis for recording materials, messages, statements received by the customs authorities of the Russian Federation is the presence in them of data containing real, specific and definite information about the circumstances of a possible accident (about the place, time and method of its commission).
4. The following are subject to accounting:
materials received from law enforcement agencies, as well as from other state bodies, local governments, and public associations containing data indicating the presence of an accident event;
messages and statements of individuals and legal entities, as well as messages in the media (hereinafter referred to as the media) containing data indicating the presence of an accident event.
5. The principles of reception, recording and consideration of information about accidents received by customs authorities are the mandatory acceptance and recording, legality, timeliness and objectivity of consideration.
2. The procedure for receiving and recording incoming materials, messages, statements containing data indicating the presence of an accident event
6. Information about the accident received by the customs authority is registered in accordance with the established procedure.
7. When individuals apply with an oral statement containing data indicating the presence of an accident event, a customs official draws up a protocol of the statement of an administrative offense (Appendix 1). The protocol is signed by the applicant and the official who accepted the application.
When individuals apply with an oral statement containing data indicating the presence of an accident event to the customs authority during non-working hours, the preparation of a protocol on the application for an administrative offense is carried out by the operational duty service of the customs authority.
8. The collection and analysis of messages containing data indicating the presence of an accident event, published or disseminated in the media, is carried out at the customs by the press secretary of the customs or another official appointed by the head of the customs in the area of activity of which the legal address of the media is located.
9. Information about an accident received by the customs authority after registration or after its identification at one of the stages of working with documents, as well as information about an accident accepted in accordance with paragraphs 7-8 of these methodological recommendations, is immediately reported by the relevant official of the customs authority to the head of the customs office. body or his deputy for law enforcement work (in the regional customs department (RTU) to the first deputy head of the RTU for law enforcement work - the head of operational customs) or to persons replacing them who give a written instruction to consider materials, messages, statements containing data indicating presence of an AP event (hereinafter referred to as the order) (Appendix 2).
10. The official entrusted with the review submits information about the accident for accounting to the structural unit specified in paragraph 11 of these methodological recommendations, and also promptly submits to the employee responsible for receiving and recording information about the accident the maintenance and storage of a log of materials and messages , statements of administrative offenses (hereinafter referred to as the journal) and review materials (hereinafter referred to as the responsible officer) the data necessary to fill out the journal.
11. Accounting of received information about accidents is carried out:
in the Federal Customs Service - the Department of Customs Investigations and Inquiry (UTRD) (paragraph as amended;
in RTU and operational customs - by the registration and registration department of operational customs;
at customs - by the registration department of customs.
12. Responsibility for organizing the reception and recording of information about accidents in the customs authorities of the Russian Federation rests with the deputy head of the customs authority for law enforcement, who determines the responsible officer.
13. When receiving information about an accident, the responsible employee takes it into account by entering data into a journal and affixing the registration number and recording date on the appropriate media.
3. Information to be entered in the columns of the journal
14. Filling out the columns of the journal is carried out in accordance with the form given in Appendix 3.
15. Column 1 indicates the serial registration number assigned to the information about the accident received by the customs authority.
The account number consists of the following digital designations:
digital code of the customs authority in which information about the accident received by the customs authority is registered (according to the classifier of the customs authorities);
serial number in the journal, starting from the 1st in each year, with the addition of the letter - I;
four digits for the current year. For example: "N 10005000-225I/2002".
16. In column 2 - the date of receipt of information about the accident by the customs authority and the incoming registration number.
17. In column 3 - brief information about the person who provided information about the AP: last name, first name, patronymic of the individual; name and address of the legal entity.
18. Column 4 contains the basic information contained in materials, messages, statements.
19. In column 5 - the position and surname of the official of the customs authority who appointed the review of information about the accident.
20. In column 6 - the date of appointment for reviewing information about the accident.
21. In column 7 - the position and surname of the official of the customs authority carrying out the consideration of information about the accident.
22. In column 8 - information about the extension of the deadline for reviewing information on the AP: the grounds for the extension, the position and surname of the official of the customs authority who extended the review, until what time the review was extended.
23. In column 9 - the registration date and serial registration number assigned to the initiated case of an accident or criminal case and the qualification of the offense under the article of the Code or the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, respectively.
24. In column 10 - the date of the decision to refuse to initiate an administrative case, the number of paragraph of Article 24.5 of the Code.
25. In column 11 - the outgoing registration number of the message about the detection of signs of other offenses that are not within the competence of the customs authorities, and to whom exactly it was sent.
4. Requirements for the design, maintenance and storage of the journal and review materials
26. The log is kept in the UTRD, operational customs, customs.
27. The magazine is started from the beginning of the year, the front side of its cover is drawn up in accordance with the form given in Appendix 4.
28. Sheets of the journal must be numbered and laced. A sticker with the stamp of the customs authority is placed on the lacing knot of the sheets on the last page, and a certification inscription must be made on top (Appendix 5).
29. All entries in the journal are made in blue, violet or black ink (paste).
30. The journal does not allow erasures, corrections or deletions of previously made entries using corrective means.
31. If necessary, entries made by mistake are crossed out with one line so that the previously written text is clearly readable. A new entry is made in the same column. In the “Note” column, the customs officer responsible for maintaining the journal makes an appropriate entry, for example; "Corrected in gr. 3 and gr. 5." Signature, initials, surname, date.
32. If one journal is not enough to record information during a calendar year, a new journal is created, which is a continuation of the first. At the same time, volume numbers are indicated on the cover of magazines (volume 1, volume 2, etc.).
33. At the end of the year, an entry is made in the journal about the total amount of registered information.
34. Journals and materials for reviewing information about accidents are stored in the unit of the customs authority specified in paragraph 11 of these guidelines for three years following the year of their recording, after which they are destroyed according to an act in accordance with the established procedure.
35. In case of initiation of a criminal case on smuggling or other crimes, the investigation of which is within the competence of the customs authorities, as well as when sending to the prosecutor or preliminary investigation authorities materials containing information about other crimes, from documents that are evidence in cases of accidents, copies are made in accordance with the procedure established by the Federal Customs Service of Russia (clause as amended by the letter of the Federal Customs Service of Russia dated September 21, 2004 N 01-06/1040.
36. For materials received during the examination, not attached to the case of an accident or a criminal case, copies of documents taken in accordance with paragraph 35 of these methodological recommendations, internal inventories are drawn up, they are systematized, numbered, filed, and then deposited with the person in charge employee.
37. In this case, the cover of the case (case volume) is mandatory. On the cover of the case (case volume) indicate: name of the customs authority, registration number, name of the person in respect of whom the information on the administrative offense is being reviewed, volume number, number of volumes of the case, date of receipt of information, date of decision on it, number of sheets in the case ( volume), shelf life.
38. Storage conditions for the journal and materials must ensure their safety. Familiarization of customs officials, with the exception of the head of the customs authority or his deputy for law enforcement work, with the magazine and materials must be carried out in the presence of a responsible officer.
39. Journals and materials are documents for internal use and cannot be transferred or issued to organizations, individuals or officials, except in cases provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation.
5. Procedure for considering information about an accident
40. If the received materials, messages, statements contain sufficient data indicating the presence of an accident event, the customs official authorized to draw up protocols on the accident and conduct an administrative investigation, initiates a case about the accident.
41. If the received materials, messages, statements contain data indicating the presence of an accident event committed after the release of goods in accordance with the customs regimes of export, release for free circulation, re-import, as well as after the end of other customs regimes in relation to goods and vehicles , consideration of information about the AP is carried out in accordance with the procedure for conducting customs control after the release of goods and vehicles established by the Federal Customs Service of Russia (clause as amended by the letter of the Federal Customs Service of Russia dated September 21, 2004 N 01-06/1040.
42. In other cases, consideration of information about an accident is carried out on behalf of the head of the customs authority or his deputy for law enforcement by structural units of the customs authority, taking into account their competence. An approximate distribution of the competence of the structural divisions of the customs authority regarding the consideration of information about the administrative act is given in Appendix 6.
43. In the Federal Customs Service of Russia, the consideration of information about accidents is carried out by the UTRD, and on behalf of the leadership of the Federal Customs Service of Russia - by another structural unit (clause as amended by the letter of the Federal Customs Service of Russia dated September 21, 2004 N 01-06/1040.
44. The composition of the employees carrying out the review of information on the AP, the terms of review are established by the official of the customs authority who appointed the review, taking into account the specific tasks of the review and the nature of the information received.
45. The time frame for consideration should not exceed the time limit established for consideration of appeals from individuals and legal entities and deputies. If the review is carried out on behalf of a higher customs authority, the issue of extending the deadline is agreed upon in advance with the authority that appointed it.
46. When considering information about an accident, a customs official has the right to use forms, methods, and means of customs and currency control established by customs and currency legislation.
47. If information about an accident, published or disseminated in the media, contains data indicating the presence of an accident event that took place in the area of activity of the customs authority, different from that given in paragraph 8 of these methodological recommendations, the employee reviewing information about the accident carries out possible actions to establish the presence or absence of an accident event and, if necessary, sends all materials of consideration to the relevant customs authority, where they are subject to recording and consideration in accordance with the procedure established by these methodological recommendations.
If messages published or disseminated in the media contain data indicating the presence of an accident event that took place in the area of activity of several:
customs office of the RTU, the review materials are sent to the appropriate RTU;
RTU, the review materials are sent to the Federal Customs Service of Russia (paragraph as amended by the letter of the Federal Customs Service of Russia dated September 21, 2004 N 01-06/1040.
48. The customs official who conducted the review makes the following decisions:
if an accident is detected, initiates a case of accident;
if, during the consideration of information about an administrative violation, circumstances are established that exclude proceedings in the case of an administrative violation (Article 24.5 of the Code), issues a reasoned decision to refuse and initiate a case of an administrative offense;
if there are signs of smuggling or other crimes, the investigation of which is within the competence of the customs authorities of the Russian Federation, the issue of initiating a criminal case is resolved in accordance with the criminal procedural legislation of the Russian Federation;
when detecting signs of other offenses that are not within the competence of the customs authorities, reports the available data on jurisdiction.
6. The procedure for issuing a ruling on refusal to initiate proceedings regarding an administrative offense
49. If, in the process of considering information about an administrative violation, circumstances are established that exclude proceedings in the case (Article 24.5 of the Code), the official reviewing information about the administrative violation issues a reasoned determination to refuse to initiate a case on an administrative offense (hereinafter referred to as the determination) in the form given in Appendix 7.
50. The determination is subject to agreement with the head of the structural unit of the employee who made the determination, and approval by the official who appointed the review.
51. The determination, together with the review materials, is submitted for accounting to the structural unit specified in paragraph 11 of these methodological recommendations.
7. Monitoring the legality and validity of decisions made based on the results of reviewing information about the accident
52. Control over the legality, validity and timeliness of decisions made based on the results of consideration of materials, messages, statements containing data indicating the presence of an accident event is carried out by the head of the customs authority or his deputy for law enforcement.
Head of Department
customs investigations and
inquiry - major general
customs service
A.V.Konstantinov
Appendix 1. Protocol of an application for an administrative offense
Annex 1
to methodological recommendations
according to the procedure for reception, accounting and
consideration of applicants
to customs authorities
Russian Federation materials,
messages, statements containing
data indicating the presence
administrative offense events
(as amended by the letter from the Federal Customs Service of Russia
dated September 21, 2004 N 01-06/1040 -
see previous edition)
Federal Customs Service
PROTOCOL
applications for administrative offenses
offenses
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(place of compilation) |
in accordance with the requirements of Article 28.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of Russia, accepted the application |
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if possible, verbatim, and the questions posed to the respondent and the answers to them are also stated) |
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received (delete what is unnecessary) | |||||||||||
(if any, which ones) |
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A person who has declared an administrative offense | |||
(signature) | (initials and surname) |
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Customs official | |||
(signature) | (initials and surname) |
Appendix 2. Instruction to consider materials, messages, statements containing data indicating the existence of an administrative offense event
Appendix 2
to methodological recommendations
according to the procedure for reception, accounting and
consideration of applicants
to customs authorities
Russian Federation
materials, messages, statements,
containing data indicating
for the presence of an event
administrative offense
ORDER
on consideration of materials, messages, statements containing data,
indicating the presence of an administrative event
offenses
"___" __________ 200_ g. | ||
(account information number) |
In accordance with Article 28.1 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offences, I oblige:
(positions, initials, surnames of officials, |
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reviewing materials, messages, statements) |
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review information about an administrative offense in |
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respect | ||||
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from "___"__________ 200_ to "___"__________ 200_ |
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(start and end dates for review) | ||||
on the issue(s) | ||||
(list of questions) |
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2. Officials of the customs authority, within the framework of their competence, provide assistance in the consideration of materials, messages, statements containing data indicating the presence of an administrative offense event.
The customs official who appointed the examination | |||
(signature) | (initials and surname) |
Appendix 3. Contents of the journal columns for recording materials, messages, statements of administrative offenses
Appendix 3
to methodological recommendations
according to the order of reception, recording and consideration
arriving at customs authorities
Russian Federation materials,
messages, statements containing
data indicating the presence
administrative offense events
Accounting- | Post date | Information | Basic | Must | Appointment date | Must | Information | Registration date | Date removed | Note: |
Appendix 4. Logbook of materials, messages, statements of administrative offenses
Appendix 4
to methodological recommendations
according to the procedure for reception, accounting and
consideration of applicants
to customs authorities
Russian Federation
materials, messages, statements,
containing data indicating
for the presence of an event
administrative offense
(as amended by the letter from the Federal Customs Service of Russia
dated September 21, 2004 N 01-06/1040 -
see previous edition)
Federal Customs Service
(name of customs authority) |
MAGAZINE
accounting of materials, messages, statements of administrative
offenses
from N _____ to N ______
started "_"________ 200_
completed "_" ________ 200_
on _____________ sheets
Appendix 5.
Appendix 5
to methodological recommendations
according to the order of reception, recording and consideration
arriving at customs authorities
Russian Federation
materials, messages, statements,
containing data indicating
presence of an administrative offense event
"In this magazine it is numbered, laced
and sealed with ________ sheets"
customs official | |||||
(signature) | (initials, surname) | ||||
"__"__________ 200_g.
Appendix 6. Approximate distribution of competence of structural divisions of the customs authority in terms of consideration of materials, messages, statements containing data indicating the presence of an administrative offense event
Appendix 6
to methodological recommendations
according to the order of reception, recording and consideration
arriving at customs authorities
Russian Federation materials,
messages, statements containing
data indicating the presence
administrative offense events
Approximate distribution
the competence of the structural divisions of the customs authority in terms of
concerning the consideration of materials, messages, statements,
containing data indicating the presence of an event
administrative offense
1. Structural units carrying out customs control and customs clearance: Articles of the Code 16.1, 16.2, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6, 16.7, 16.8, 16.11, 16.12, 16.13, 16.14, 16.15, 16.16, .17, 16.18, parts 1, 2, 3 articles 16.19, 16.20, 19.26, part 2 of article 20.23 (clause as amended by the letter of the Federal Customs Service of Russia dated September 21, 2004 N 01-06/1040.
2. Structural units that control the delivery of goods: Code articles 16.9, 16.10.
3. Structural units exercising currency control: Articles of the Code 15.25, part 4 of Article 16.19 (as amended by the letter of the Federal Customs Service of Russia dated September 21, 2004 N 01-06/1040.
4. Structural units exercising control over the placement of goods and vehicles under the customs regime: parts 1, 2, 3 of Articles 16.19, 16.20 (clause as amended by the letter of the Federal Customs Service of Russia dated September 21, 2004 N 01-06/1040.
5. Structural units exercising control over the calculation and payment of customs duties:
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Karryev B.S., abbreviated report “Current issues of monitoring the geological environment and increasing seismic safety of the Kaliningrad region. 1st International Conference “Current issues of monitoring the geological environment and the safety of urbanized areas.” Kaliningrad. BFU. 2011
To confirm my opinion, I could abuse the authority of many men who report that there have never been earthquakes in Egypt. They explain this by saying that Egypt was supposedly all formed from silt... However, there are earthquakes in Egypt, and on Delos, even though Virgil ordered him to stand still... I will add that the sea coast is generally subject to earthquakes. So, Pathos collapsed more than once; Thus, the famous Nikopol has already become accustomed to this disaster; the deep sea washing Cyprus shakes it; Tyre shook as many times as it was flooded... We have already said that a flock of six hundred sheep died in the Pompeii region. There is no need to think that these sheep died of fear.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman Stoic philosopher, poet and statesman, 4 BC. e.
In 2001, the appearance of hot water in a well was noted in the village of Lesnoye on the Curonian Spit (Vzmorya St., 4) [Earthquake on the Curonian Spit, 2002], and in November-December 2003 - in Ozerki. In the village of Prudy, about 40 km from Kaliningrad, hot water appeared in the well. In 2003, in a number of districts of the Kaliningrad region, they began to noticeabnormal increase in groundwater temperature. In one or another area of the region, villagers recorded changes in the temperature of underground water.
In Ozerki, the appearance of hot water in deep wells was the third case in 2003 in the Kaliningrad region. In the summer, a hot well appeared in the area of Lake Vishtynets. Both times, the high water temperature in the wells lasted for two weeks, and then literally dropped in one day and returned to normal. In addition, in the area of Lake Vishtynets [Orlyonok et al., 2000], the water temperature in a number of wells in the summer was 17-18 degrees instead of the usual 4-5 degrees Celsius. Hydrochemical analyzes of water samples taken from all such wells showed that there were no chemical anomalies in the composition of the water (Hot water in a well, Prudy village, Kaliningrad region (photos by Dmitry Plenkin [Krivosheev, 2003]).
According to Doctor of Geological Sciences, Professor of IKBFU. I.Kant V.V.Orlenka - hot gas from high-temperature layers of water rises through microcracks to the earth's surface. Here it falls into the sandy cushion of Quaternary sediments, where the well shafts descend. As a result, the effect of heating water in wells is observed. And the fact that the water cools down almost in one day may be due to the fact that the wells are built in sandy-clayey soil, which quickly closes cracks and thereby prevents heat from accessing the water. This effect may accompany the preparation of an earthquake. Thus, all three wells, in which the water temperature changed sharply, are located in the zone of deep faults and oil fields.
This phenomenon is quite consistent with the data that during the period of preparation for earthquakes there is an intensive unloading of natural gases dissolved in the fluid and solid phase from the surface layers. The unloading of natural gases is accompanied by variations in groundwater levels, which together reflect the regional dynamics of deformation processes in the environment [Ishankuliev et al., 1992; Gufeld etc., 2011].
On the eve of the Kaliningrad earthquake, the seismic situation changed significantly and unusual natural phenomena were discovered. The number of recorded earthquakes changed, and the increase in the number of events in general was not associated with a change in the resolution of seismic observations in the region. There was an abrupt change in the energy dissipated by earthquakes.
If we accept the fact of stability of the resolution of observation systems in the Baltic region (not less than M ≥ 3.5 in the period from 1970 to 2004), thenThe rate of strain release began to increase since 1990. For the region, 1997 and 2004 (the Kaliningrad earthquake) became reference points for the activation of the general seismic process, which is confirmed by a new jump in activity in 2010. It is typical that during these periods there was an increase in the number of recorded events, and then a decrease. The period of seismic quiescence before 1990 corresponds well with known information about earthquakes in East Prussia and the Baltic as a whole. Note that before the earthquake on April 28, 2007 in the Gulf of Dover with M = 4.2 with a shallow focus, the water temperature in the Gdansk and Curonian Lagoons again increased sharply [Assinovskaya, 2009].
This is an alternation of periods of activation and is well known where data on earthquakes over long time intervals is available [Allen, 1981; Karryev, 1992; Mei, 1960]. This makes it difficult to extrapolate observational data obtained over a short period of time into the future, which is typical for the currently available data on seismicity in the Baltic region in general and the Kaliningrad region in particular.
On September 21, 2004, the strongest earthquake of the instrumental period occurred in the Baltic region with MPSP = 5.1. It happened at 13:32:30 and was preceded by a foreshock with M = 4.1, and 4 minutes after the main shock there was a strong aftershock with M = 3.0, and in total there were 7 underground shocks felt by the population. According to the data, the earthquake, its foreshock and aftershock were accompanied by strong sound effects.
To this day, there is no consensus on the exact location of the Kaliningrad earthquakes (on land or at sea). Instrumental data for determining the position of their epicenters by different seismic observation systems vary greatly.
This happened due to the remoteness of the earthquake site from seismic stations, where the wave pattern was different and different wave phases were used to determine the main parameters of the earthquake. Therefore, to solve practical problems, the position of the epicenter and hypocenter of the main shock, as a rule, is specified conditionally. The locations of possible epicenters according to macroseismic and instrumental data also differ, and it is impossible to confidently draw a single closed isoseist on a macroseismic map, so they are not reliable enough to determine the position of the main shock.
Analysis of the results of processing records from European seismic stations (the nearest Polish stations are 250-500 km) [Viezhach et al., 2009] determines the location of the source of the Kaliningrad earthquakes outside the coastal zone - in the sea. The seismic observation network of Belarus found itself in an even more disadvantageous position, both due to its remoteness (450-500 km) and one-sided position. Determinations from this network showed the location of the source of the Kaliningrad earthquake under the Sambian Peninsula, which almost coincides with the data from the GS RAS network, the nearest stations of which were also located very far away (“Pulkovo” - 800 km, “Obninsk” - 1000 km).
On September 21, 2004, events in Kaliningrad developed as follows. Residents of the region and Kaliningrad felt the first tremors at approximately 2:15 p.m. The glass shook and broke in some places. The ground shook underfoot. People began to leave the buildings. Mobile communications immediately stopped working. The first assumptions are a powerful explosion (at that time exercises were taking place in the Baltic). 30 minutes after the first shock, the assistant commander of the Baltic Fleet announced that exercises were being conducted 25 km from the coast, but the possibility of their influence on the tectonic process was excluded [Assinovskaya, 2009]. Then they started talking about a possible earthquake - an echo of an underground strike in the Carpathians.
Later, information about the earthquake was confirmed by the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Kaliningrad Region (15.30) . The lack of our own seismic observations and the exclave position of the region played a cruel joke - neither officials nor special services had information for a long time about what actually happened. The wait for a message from the center was delayed, and accordingly, the authorities did not have the data to make any decisions.
At approximately sixteen thirty minutes, residents of the area feel a more powerful earthquake. Civil defense and emergency response specialists, based on data from Polish seismologists, estimate it to be approximately M = 4.5 on the Richter scale. Electronic media reported that the earthquake was felt in Poland and Lithuania. Foreign seismological centers are finally providing information about its epicenter - the Pravdinsky district. Classes are officially canceled in all educational institutions. Enterprise managers were advised to evacuate personnel and a message was sent (16:45 about the possibility of a repeat earthquake).
The townspeople poured into the streets and hurried to their homes, schools, and children. On the streets of Kaliningrad, a powerful flow of vehicles created traffic jams and led to numerous accidents. More than forty of them were recorded, five of which involved casualties. Immediately after the earthquake, many citizens sought medical help, and some victims were hospitalized. Mostly, people came in with fractures and sprains.
According to eyewitnesses in Kaliningrad, the earthquake was felt by almost all residents. People noticed walls shaking, plaster crumbling, furniture falling, loose objects falling, cracks appeared in some houses, etc.
Eyewitness: “The first shock was felt at KSU on Universitetskaya, on the first floor. The floor shook a little, as if a tram had passed nearby. Even then I thought: “It’s strange, there are no trams here...” And I immediately forgot. And I felt the second shock at home, lying on the couch and watching TV. At first everything shook a little, then even more, the plates in the kitchen began to fall. Further events were like in a slow motion movie - he jumped into the corridor and turned off the TV as he walked, put on his shoes and almost managed to run out into the street when the shaking stopped - he lived on the fourth floor. There were a lot of women with children on the street.”
Eyewitness: “The coast shook more noticeably, during the first shock I was in Svetlogorsk, working in the House of Public Services, at the moment of the first shock the walls shook, the doors swayed, whitewash fell from the ceiling, the iron on the tables rang... Then a stunned man flew past my door towards the exit TV master (not a sight for the faint of heart, 2 meters tall and 100 kg in weight), although, to be honest, I wasn’t laughing at that time... Everyone ran out into the street, heated discussions, grabbed their phones, but no one was working! By the way, at that time only MegaFon was working, the other operators had no connection. After about 15 minutes everyone calmed down and went on working, and an hour later there was a second shock, stronger than the first... a little later we went to see how the railway embankment slid down from the earthquake, also not a particularly pleasant sight... 80 meters of rails hanging in the air, on height, in some places reaching 15 meters...".
Eyewitness: “...the second shock caught me at the computer, the monitor moved across the table, the sideboard doors opened, crystal fell on the floor... I immediately walked into the doorway, everything was shaking, much stronger than the first shock...”
Eyewitness, Ph.D., Associate Professor, IKBFU. I.Kanta O.V.Bass: “The first shock found me in the car in the parking lot, it shuddered - I thought that a heavy truck had passed by. The second shock found me on the coast - near the city of Sovetsk. I was in a calm state and was preparing equipment for geodetic measurements on a tarpaulin - observing the lens of the sea - suddenly the picture seemed to shift and immediately returned back ... ".
Assinovskaya B. (2009): “The occurrence of outbreaks in the Gulf of Gdansk is confirmed ... by reports from sailors who were the first to notify the authorities about the earthquake... The first statement from officials regarding the earthquake came precisely from the military of the Baltic Fleet... In the sea, about one kilometer from the coast, local residents saw a funnel resembling tornado".
During this period of time, no emergency messages were transmitted via electronic media. Only on local radio in the evening two mutually exclusive messages were broadcast: new tremors are expected and the Ministry of Emergency Situations recommends leaving home (22:47); the second is a storm warning and a recommendation not to leave your houses.Macroseismic data for Kaliningrad were collected by employees of the Institute of Earth Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the State Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences [Assinovskaya, 2009]. Quite a lot of information about the consequences of the earthquake in various areas of the region was reported by local electronic media. Macroseismic data for the Kaliningrad region and adjacent territories are summarized in [Gregersen, 2009].
In Kaliningrad, damage was mainly recorded in old German houses built before the war. According to the general understanding, they were associated with operational conditions - lack of major repairs and dilapidation of buildings. On Krasnaya Street (41) in Kaliningrad, the earthquake caused cracks in the walls and ceilings, and plaster fell off in apartments. Similar damage was found on Borzov, Sportivnaya, Polevaya, Pugacheva, Ofitserskaya, and Karl Marx streets.
On Kalinin Avenue (97) a pipe fell and a tiled roof collapsed. In some apartments the electricity was shorted out and the plaster fell off. In kindergarten No. 100, a fragment of the wall of the children's bedroom collapsed during the second earthquake. At this time, the children were outside, and no one was injured. Svobodnaya Street was strewn with red bricks - chimneys had collapsed on the roof of one of the houses. According to eyewitnesses, bricks rained down, but no one was injured.
On average, the intensity of shaking in Kaliningrad was V points, but against this background, areas were identified where the intensity of shaking reached VI points on the MSK-64 scale. The literature provides different opinions about what factors caused the discrepancy between the predicted intensity of shaking and the real one. It exceeded them by almost two orders of magnitude (it is proposed to relate this circumstance to ground conditions, groundwater level, etc.). However, what is more important here is the fact of the achievement of dangerous tremors for the city, rather than a discussion of the reasons that caused them.
The figure shows a situational diagram of the manifestation of the Kaliningrad earthquake of 2004 [Karryev B.S., 2011].The designations are as follows: yellow (A) and white (B) ovals – areas of the highest concentration of earthquake epicenters according to external observation systems (Norway, Poland, Sweden); red crosses - supposed focal zones of historical strong earthquakes, 4-petal stars -expected macroseismicepicenters of the 2004 Kaliningrad earthquake (I – Nikonov et al., II – Assinovskaya); stars – instrumental locations of the epicenter of the 2004 Kaliningrad earthquake (redfill – NORSAR data, white – Sweden); pink circles – oil field development sites where sources of weak earthquakes have been recorded: white triangles – temporary network of seismic stations IO RAS; the red circle with an oblique cross is the location of the small-aperture array in 2011; the black triangle is the Polish seismic station SUW closest to the scene of events. The inset in the diagram is the distribution of epicenters of weak earthquakes recorded by the temporary network of the Institute of Physical Earth Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2007-2008.
Unfortunately, the discrepancy between the predicted seismicity and actual shaking is a characteristic feature of all seismic zoning maps of the USSR and the present time. After each devastating earthquake in the USSR, there were numerous reasons explaining the discrepancy between predicted estimates and actual shocks. However, at the level of objective logic, the main reason is the lack of information about earthquakes, i.e. too short periods of time were used to calculate shaking parameters.
Historical information and instrumental data in areas even with continuous seismic activity are often insufficient for assessing the seismic regime and calculating risk parameters. Because of this, statistical extrapolations have to be extended to large regions rather than specific areas. In fact, the seismic material OSR-78 [Seismic zoning of the territory of the USSR, 1980] and OSR-97 [Ulomov, Shumilina, 1998] were the same, since historical information in the earthquake catalogs was not significantly added, and the instrumental time period was not expanded for more than a dozen years. In relation to such a vast territory as Russia, this did not greatly change the situation with the original data. In empirical sciences such as seismology, a significant breakthrough in the accuracy of constructions is possible only due to new experimental data and increasing the accuracy of seismic observations in seismically active territories, while changes in calculation methods only help to clarify individual aspects of the process.
During the Kaliningrad earthquake, the most significant macroseismic manifestations were confined to the sea coast. Thus, the movement of commuter trains between the Svetlogorsk-1 and Svetlogorsk-2 stations was interrupted. 40 minutes after the main shock, on a section of the route connecting two stations of the resort city, a failure of the roadbed 30 meters wide and 15 meters deep appeared. About 60 meters of the railway track and the contact network were damaged. This railway embankment was built from clay and sand and was saturated with water due to prolonged rains.
At a distance of 25 km to the southeast of the epicenter near the village of Veselovka, cracks formed in water-saturated soil near an artificial reservoir with a vertical displacement of about 20 cm and a horizontal displacement of 10 cm. Deformations appeared during the foreshock and increased during the main shock. Both described cases had a surface effect and were caused by local soil conditions.
In general, there was no significant destruction of buildings or damage to infrastructure in the Kaliningrad region and in the territories of border countries. The greatest surface effect and damage were concentrated in two areas: 10–12 km west-northwest of Kaliningrad and within the administrative territory of Svetlogorsk with adjacent villages. The area of magnitude VI shaking on land is estimated at approximately 100 km2 in the north and 50 km2 in the south.
According to the results of processing of instrumental data by the GS RAS, the source of the earthquake was located at a depth of up to 20 km, approximately ten kilometers from the coast of the Baltic Sea between the villages of Krugloye, Russkoye, Dvoriki and Kumacheevo. Let us note, within the framework of the inaccuracies of instrumental determinations and the velocity models used, the error in determining the epicenter can overlap the deviation of instrumental and macroseismic determinations significantly enough to consider a possible source area both in the sea and on land.
It is characteristic that with the location of the source “on land” in the subsequent period of time, it did not manifest itself in any way as seismic activity, while the temporary network of the Institute of Physical Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the stations of the Institute of Oceanography of the Russian Academy of Sciences characterized two zones in the sea, off the Sambian Peninsula, with increased activity. This speaks in favor of the “sea” basing of the focal region of the Kaliningrad earthquake. In particular, this is indicated by the isoseism map built for the Baltic region, unless, of course, the bed of the Baltic Sea is considered an exceptionally favorable overpass for seismic waves[Gregersen, 2009] .
Estimates of seismic intensity in various settlements of the Kaliningrad region during the first shock on the EMS-98 macroseismic scale were: Yantarny, Pionersky - 6 points; western part of Kaliningrad – 5.5–6 points; Krasnotorovka – 5.5 points; Kaliningrad, Svetly, Svetlogorsk, Okunevo, Donskoye, Primorye - 5 points; Dubrovka, Muromskoye, Lyublino, Primorsk, Petrovo – 4.5 points; Baltiysk, Zelenogradsk, Dvoriki, Kruglovo - 4 points. Estimates of seismic intensity during the second shock: western part of Kaliningrad - 6–7 points; Yantarny, Pionersky, Svetlogorsk - 6 points; Svetly, Kaliningrad - 5–6 points; Krasnotorovka, Donskoye, Pereslavskoye, Kumachevo, Romanovo, Dvoriki - 5.5 points; Baltiysk, Okunevo, Kruglovo, Petrovo, Zelenogradsk, Muromskoye, Klintsovka – 5 points; Primorsk – 4.5 points [Nikonov et al., 2005]. The range of scatter of intensities in the epicentral region of the earthquake ranged from IV to VII points on the EMS-98 scale.
The earthquake was felt by residents of many settlements in Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Northern Poland, as well as in Copenhagen (Denmark), Helsinki (Finland), Oslo (Norway) and southern Sweden. Minor damage to buildings, etc. occurred in a hundred locations in Northern Poland. In Lithuania, there were dozens of reports of broken window glass. Here people were scared and left their homes. In Latvia there were reports of cracks in the walls of houses, but in Estonia there were no reports of damage to buildings.
It should be noted that seismic observations organized by the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences under a contract with the Lukoil company on the bottom of the Baltic Sea and on the coast (2006-2008) allow us to conclude that the water area of the Baltic Sea adjacent to the Curonian Spit is a seismically active area [Review of results..., 2006; 2007; 2008]. Earthquakes with magnitudes up to 3.5 (K ≤ 9) occur here.
It was possible to accurately determine the sources of two earthquakes. The local magnitudes of both ML earthquakes were 3.5-3.6 [Review of results..., 2008]. In other words, the absence of a greater number of weak earthquakes in the region is not a natural pattern of this area, but a consequence of the lack of an observation system that meets the modern level of technology.
The generalized intensity map has a characteristic “quasi-ellipsoidal” shape with the major axis oriented from northwest to southeast. At the same time, the macroseismic epicenter gravitates towards the bay, west of the Sambian Peninsula. In this area, weak seismic events have been recorded for a long time by various systems - before and after the 2004 Kaliningrad earthquake. In 2007-2008, in the area of the Kravtsovskoye field, weak earthquakes of technogenic nature were discovered with epicenters in the area of the offshore ice-resistant platform D-6 [Kovachev, 2008].
Thus, in the period from May 9 to May 28, 2008, autonomous seismic stations of the IO RAS recorded a series of seven weak earthquakes with magnitudes from 2.5 to 3. The distances of certain epicenters to the OIFP ranged from 2.5 to 7.5 km. Earthquakes occurred at depths ranging from ≈ 1.3 to 8.5 km. These events were recorded by Norwegian and Swedish seismic stations [Kovachev, 2008; Kovachev et al., 2008].
In the summer of 1980, a swarm of weak earthquakes was recorded in the Gulf of Gdansk, 50 kilometers from Kaliningrad with 2.5 ≤ ML ≤ 3. Since 1999, ISC catalogs have provided information about seismic events with coordinates close to the source area of the Kaliningrad earthquakes (according to HEL data, some of them were classified as explosions). Information from the geophysical department of Uppsala University in Sweden indicates that a series of earthquakes are occurring in the area of the Kravtsovskoye D-6 field (reserves are estimated at 10 million tons of oil).
The first series of weak seismic events (M=1.6-3.3) was noted in June 2002 - before the start of development of the Kravtsovskoye field (2004), which indicates their tectonic nature, as well as a possible connection with the source of the 2004 Kaliningrad earthquake . It is quite possible that the period 1980-2003 became a new stage in the development of the seismic process in this area, since before that time there was no information about its seismic activity.
Seismic observations carried out by the Institute of Earth Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPZ RAS) in the period 2007-2008 under a contract with the Kaliningrad mayor’s office also revealed increased seismic activity in the Baltic Sea adjacent to the Sambian Peninsula [Sidorin et al., 2011]. A total of 32 local earthquakes of tectonic nature with M = 0.9-2.7 (K ≈ 5-8) were identified. Some of the recorded earthquakes near the peninsula were confirmed by data from the NORSAR system.
The Kaliningrad earthquake was accompanied by extraordinary effects. Local residents reported that in the sea, about one kilometer from the shore, they saw a funnel resembling a tornado [Assinovskaya, 2009]. During the foreshock, residents of the village of Kholmogorovka heard a rumble from the north, in Kolosovka - first a rumble and then a shock, in Kumachovo - a rumble from underground, and during the main earthquake the rumble came from the direction of Lyublino - from the south. In the Courtyards, the rumble preceded the first blow, and at the second blow, the rumble came from underground. Residents of Krasnotorovka mistook the roar for an explosion, and at the second impact the roar came from underground.
In Baltiysk, a wave was seen in the ground, spreading from the southwest to the northeast. A wave running along the ground was observed almost everywhere, and the sound was perceived as an explosion [Assinovskaya, 2009]. In the village Sosnovka, after the earthquake, steam came out of a shallow well. There are reports of mud volcanism on the seabed (north of the Sambian Peninsula). According to electronic media reports, domestic animals and inhabitants of the Kaliningrad Zoo behaved unusually.
The described features of the period of the Kaliningrad earthquake of 2004 indicate the need for further research of this territory, which is of undoubted scientific interest and has practical significance. It is also important that the continued activity of the earthquake area indicates that the seismic process in the west of the Kaliningrad region continues to be in an active phase. In 2010, in the Gvardeysky district of the Kaliningrad region, despite the frosts, the lake in the village of Rovnoye did not freeze. At an air temperature of -16 degrees Celsius, the water temperature turned out to be +6 degrees. Cases of thermal anomalies and their possible connection with the geodynamic process should be recorded and analyzed.
A series of earthquakes that occurred on September 21, 2004 in the Kaliningrad region raises the question of the need to revise the assessment of the level of seismic hazard in the Kaliningrad region and create our own seismic monitoring system for the region.
Batyr Karryev
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor of IKBFU. I. Kant