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The 2003 Altai earthquake, or 2003 Chuya earthquake, occurred on September 27 at with a
moment magnitude The moment magnitude scale (MMS; denoted explicitly with or Mw, and generally implied with use of a single M for magnitude) is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude ("size" or strength) based on its seismic moment. It was defined in a 1979 pape ...
of 7.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). The epicenter of this oblique-slip shock was in
Altai Republic The Altai Republic (; russian: Респу́блика Алта́й, Respublika Altay, ; Altai: , ''Altay Respublika''), also known as Gorno-Altai Republic, and colloquially, and primarily referred to in Russian to distinguish from the neighbouri ...
,
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near the borders of
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, China, and
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. Three deaths and five injuries were reported and the total damage was listed as $10.6–33 million.


Earthquake

This earthquake had components of right-lateral strike-slip and reverse movement in a segmented fault zone which had not been previously recognized.


Damage

Between 99 and 300 houses destroyed, along with 1,942 other buildings affected. It was the strongest earthquake in this region since an estimated magnitude 7.7 earthquake on December 20, 1761.


Ground effects

Landslides affected the Kosh-Agachsky and Ust’-Ulagan Districts.


See also

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List of earthquakes in 2003 This is a list of earthquakes in 2003. Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included, unless they result in damage and/or casualties, or are notable for some other reason. All dates are listed according to UTC (Coordinated Universal Tim ...
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List of earthquakes in Russia Earthquakes in Russia have occasionally been damaging and deadly. Map Some of the largest Russian earthquakes since the latter half of the 20th century are the 1958/1963 and 2006/2007 earthquakes in the Kuril Islands near Japan, as well as th ...


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* {{Earthquakes in 2003 2003 earthquakes Altai Earthquake, 2003 Earthquakes in Russia Natural disasters in Siberia September 2003 events in Russia +Rus