EARTHQUAKE DATA AND MODELLING TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF FUTURE EARTHQUAKES ON A FINAL REPOSITORY OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL IN SWEDEN
Earthquakes have only on a few occasions exceeded magnitude 4 in Sweden in modern times. The safety case for a deep repository for spent fuel however includes an earthquake scenario as earthquakes with much greater magnitudes probably occurred in northern Sweden during the most recent deglaciation p...
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2004
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.459.7773 http://www.iitk.ac.in/nicee/wcee/article/13_3238.pdf |
| Summary: | Earthquakes have only on a few occasions exceeded magnitude 4 in Sweden in modern times. The safety case for a deep repository for spent fuel however includes an earthquake scenario as earthquakes with much greater magnitudes probably occurred in northern Sweden during the most recent deglaciation period some 9000- 10 000 years ago when re-activated faults ruptured the surface over lengths of 150 km and such events may repeat in the future. Underground field evidence of effects of earthquakes due to faulting have been collected from e.g. Italy |
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