Active Tectonics Georgia is one of the most seismically active regions in Alpine-Himalayan collision belt. The analysis of the historical and instrumental seismological shows, that this is the region of moderate seismicity. The strong earthquakes with magnitude up to 7 and macrosiesmic intensity 9 (MSK scale) occurred here.
Geology of Georgia The territory of Georgia occupies the central part of the Black Sea - Caspian Sea basin. The latter represents a Late Alpine collision structure that was formed in the place of the ancient ocean Tethys and its northern and southern continental framings as a result of the collision between Afro-Arabian and Eurasian continents. At the same time the Black Sea - Caspian Sea region is a connecting link between the European and Asiatic parts of this collision structure known in traditional geology under the name of the Alpine - Himalayan mountain - fold belt.
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