Director of the Republican Seismological Service Gurban Yetirmishli said that no strong earthquakes are predicted in Baku in the near future.
“Since Azerbaijan is located in a seismically active zone, there is no such day that there are no small tremors. In addition, there are no seismic sites on the territory of the republic where the probability of catastrophically strong earthquakes is high,” Yetirmishli told reporters on Monday.
According to him, a good example of this is the earthquake of medium strength that occurred on Saturday in Lankaran.
The probability of a repeat of aftershocks?
The republic’s chief seismologist also dispelled fears of a repeat earthquake in the country amid the latest tremors.
Yetirmishli stressed that there was no special damage, only small cracks were recorded in the walls of buildings built of low-quality material.
“The magnitude of the earthquake in Lankaran, which occurred last Saturday, was 5.3. Since its depth was at a depth of 20 km, it affected a wide area. For example, an earthquake with a magnitude of 3 was felt in Karabakh,” he said.
According to the director of the center, over the next two days, the remaining energy was gradually released, and therefore there is no reason to fear a repeat of earthquakes.
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The first seismological station in Karabakh will open within a month, said the president of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (ANAS), academician Isa Gabibbeyli.
“In the area of the village of Dashalty in Shusha, work is being completed on the first seismological station. We plan to complete them within a month and open the first seismic station in the Karabakh region,” Gabibbeyli said on Monday during the conference “Innovations in the field of seismic hazard and the results of modern engineering practices in the Caucasus.”
He also said that more than 20 seismic stations were destroyed in the Azerbaijani territories during the Armenian occupation.
It should be noted that the international conference “Innovations in the field of seismic hazard and the results of modern engineering practices in the Caucasus” is being held in Baku from May 13 to 15, which is attended by the heads of ANAS, representatives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the State Committee for Urban Planning and Architecture, as well as seismologists and specialists from foreign countries.
The participants discuss the collection and analysis of the latest seismic data in the Caucasus, the ordering of the earthquake catalog, the concepts of modern building codes, the latest earthquake forecasting methods and requirements for hazard assessment.
