Seismic construction issues to be discussed
The international conference on "Current Issues of Geophysics and Engineering Seismology" will kick off in Gyumri today. The conference is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Geophysics and Engineering Seismology after A. Nazarov at the RA National Academy of Sciences.
According to the NAS Center for Information and Analysis, the conference will bring together scientists from Russia, Georgia and Iran to discuss the key issues of science and application of geophysics, engineering seismology and seismic construction, as well as the issues related to implementation of the program called "Measures for reducing the seismic risk based on the conception on the development of the RA Seismic Security System".
Thanks to academician A. Nazarov, the Institute of Geophysics and Engineering Seismology became widely popular in the 1960s and 1970s and became a major scientific organization among the former Soviet republics in certain scientific directions.
Some of the latest most significant scientific achievements of the institute are the creation of a 3D structural-dynamic model of the globe on a ratio of 1:200,000 of the RA territory, as well as scientific, methodological and applied studies on assessing the seismic danger and risk.
