A New Earthquake in the Central Part of the East European Platform (in the Vicinity of Rybinsk)

On March 18, 2024, the seismic monitoring network in the central part of the East European Platform (EEP) registered an earthquake near Rybinsk (58.22° N, 38.52° E) with an ML (local magnitude) of 3.1 with an epicenter localized to epicenter to the long-lived Central Russian Deformation Belt, which inherits a structure and direction of dislocations of the platform basement of the craton. Tectonic seismic events were registered in the central part of the EEP in the last decade. Analysis of their epicenter locations shows they also belong to the same zone. It is concluded that the modern seismicity in the Central Russian Deformation Belt is activated. This fact has to be considered in the arrangement of infrastructure within this zone.