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标题：Geographical characteristics of earthquakes in the Soca River Region
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作者：Milan Orožen Adamič, Mauro Hrvatin
期刊名称：Acta Geographica Slovenica
印刷版ISSN：1581-6613
电子版ISSN：1581-8314
出版年度：2001
卷号：41
出版社：Geografski inštitut Antona Melika ZRC SAZU
摘要：In the last few decades, Slovenia has fortunately not been struck by natural disasters that judged according to the extent of damage or the number of casualties can be ranked among catastrophes of world dimensions. However, this is not true of natural disasters on the immediate margins of Slovene ethnic territory. During the Friuli earthquake in Italy in 1976, more than one thousand people lost their lives. That earthquake also caused major damage in Slovenia, although we had no casualties. However, in Slovenia we must still consider seriously the possibility of many casualties in a large-scale earthquake such as occurred in 1511. The upper So~a River region is among the most picturesque Slovene landscapes. The upper valley of the So~a River has none of the larger plains or basins that characterize other parts of Slovenia. Somewhat larger widenings occur only near Bovec, Kobarid, and Tolmin, with a side spur into the Nadi`a Valley. It appears that tectonic and several other characteristics of this region contributed heavily to this morphological formation of the upper So~a region. There is no doubt that upper So~a area ranks among Slovenia’s most threatened regions. In the span of only twenty-two years, two devastating series of earthquakes have struck, in 1976 and 1998. These two earthquakes were different in their nature and effect. The first earthquake in 1976 was undoubtedly stronger than the one in 1998. Luckily for Slovenia, the epicenter of that earthquake was in neighbouring Italy, about twenty-five kilometers from the border. As we did in 1976, we undertook field studies of the 1998 earthquake activity in the upper So~a region. The consequences caused by natural disasters in a particular region always have multi-layer dimensions. It is therefore no coincidence that very diverse groups of researchers participated in these studies. The work of research groups in the .Effects of the Earthquake of April 12, 1998, in the Bovec Region on the Buildings, People, and Environment. project was coordinated by the Civil Engineering Institute ZRMK. Also participating in this project was the Anton Melik Geographical Institute from the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University in Ljubljana. In this paper, only a few geographical dimensions of the consequences of the last two major earthquakes in the upper So~a region are presented.
关键词：nature disasters; earthquake; So~a River Region; Slovenia