Main features of the latest geodynamics of the North-West and Central Caucasus
Structural-geomorphological and morphometric analyses of the North-West and Central Caucasus (to the meridian of Elbrus) and adjacent areas of the foothills and the Black Sea basin, supplemented by computer statistical processing of field fracturing measurements, revealed the longitudinal and transverse zonal of the latest dislocations, which is inherited from ancient stages of development. The distribution of earthquakes is subordinate to the neotectonic zonal. It has been established that the cracking of different age rocks determines the orientation of the modern erosion network, and the lines of its elongation, built with the help of the LESSA program, correlate with the field of tectonic stresses. Morphometric analysis showed a high degree of statistical correlation between the density of earthquakes and the magnitude of the vertical dissection of the relief, the speed of modern vertical movements, which makes it possible to recommend these parameters for forecasting seismicity.