ARCTIC BASIN
The review of the seismicity of the Arctic basin for 2012 according to the data of the world network, located exclusively outside the named territory, and the only seismological station "Franz Josef Land" from two sets of seismic sensors ZF1 and ZF2 of the Arkhangelsk network, operating since September 2011 in the region is presented. There are in total 40 earthquakes with mb=3.5-5.7 in the Arctic basin are recorded and a map of their epicenters is given. All of them are connected with the seismically active zone, which extends through the deep-water part of the Arctic basin to the shelf of the Laptev Sea. For five earthquakes, the parameters of the mechanism of the source are given according to the GCMT data. A comparison of the function N(m) for 2012 with those for 1990-2011 is described. The level of seismic energy released in 2012 is higher than that in 2011 by more than 30 times and in 2.2 times higher than its average for 22 previous years. The distribution of earthquakes in the Arctic region in 2012 by months, days of the week and hours of the day is given.