Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are preparing to sign a Memorandum of Cooperation in order to join efforts to analyse the seismicity of common transboundary territories, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reports.
The document will be signed between the Institute of Seismology and Atmospheric Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan and the G.A.Mavlyanov Institute of Seismology of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan.
The Turkmen Institute is a specialised institution carrying out seismic-geophysical, geodynamic, hydrodynamic and geochemical monitoring.
An important part of the integrated monitoring is to search for earthquake precursors, ensure earthquake registration and promptly inform the relevant agencies of Turkmenistan.
The article says that since 2018, Turkmen scientists in cooperation with the UN Development Programme have been involved in the project "Strengthening Turkmenistan's national capacity to assess seismic risks, prevent and respond to potential earthquakes".
For example, to create a seismic microzonation map, the Institute has developed a new innovative method that allows mass surveying of prospective development areas without the need to drill research wells.
Turkmenistan is one of the most earthquake-prone countries not only in the Central Asian region, but also in the whole world. On the night of 6 October 1948, Ashgabat was hit by one of the most catastrophic earthquakes of the XX century with a magnitude of 9-10, which almost completely destroyed the Turkmen capital.
Eziz Boyarov
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