The Novy cluster is named for the town of Novy Uoyan in the Republic of
Buryatia, near the northern end of Lake Baykal in the Russian far east.
The area is quite seismically active, at magnitudes as high as 5.9, and
fairly well instrumented, so location calibration is very robust. The
depth distribution of earthquakes tends toward bimodality, with about
half the events quite shallow, from 0-10 km, and another peak around 16
km, with some events near 30 km depth. The location analysis is
ill-suited to resolving very shallow depths. All events have depth
control, mostly from near-source and local-distance observations, or in
some cases from teleseismic depth phases, especially for earlier events
that had few or no local observations. Most events are observed at
teleseismic distances, but a few events that were observed only to
regional distances are retained for their contribution to the
statistical power of the location calibration.
