NUST MISIS’ College of Mining, Moscow, Russia

A. S. Batugin, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Professor, as-bat@mail.ru

Hazardous geodynamic phenomena are a challenging problem for more than 100 years. In the mid-70s, in the USSR, efficient measures were developed for preventing rock bursts, but the problem remained yet highly acute. First and foremost, the geodynamic zoning method was aimed to deal with the mine field zoning by the degree of geodynamic hazard, with Professors I. M. Petukhov and I. M. Batugin to conduct the pioneer research in that area. In 1980 the first guidelines were issued for geodynamic zoning, and they, for the first time in the geodynamic research, disclosed the interconnection between the global geodynamic and local geomechanical processes. Many ideas put forward during development of the geodynamic zoning method, for instance, stress state modeling with regard to block structure of rock mass and mining operations, keep on being advanced and are efficiently used in geomechanical and geodynamic modeling of mineral deposits. On the basis of the concept of stress state of the Earth’s crust, it is possible to explain such geodynamic phenomena as geodynamic interaction of mines, induced slow earthquakes, or reactivation of faults at great distances from a manmade impact. Furthermore, it is possible to expose the nature of superintensive movements in the crust, to extent the approach to maximal possible and maximal anticipated magnitude of an induced earthquake, and many other things. All in all, this background illustrates the advance of the scientific thinking from the method of geodynamic zoning to the concept of the subsoil geodynamics—a new school in the Earth science.

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