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Newly built houses in Yerevan earthquake-proof, specialist says
tert.am
12:38 - 16.08.12
Eight-magnitude earthquake in Yerevan will cause cracks on the
breakaway buildings in Ajapnyak, while a stronger earthquake will
cause partial and complete collapses, Zaven Khlghatyan, head of the
Earthquake Resistant Construction Center of National Service for
Seismic Protection (NSSP) of Armenia's Emergency Situations Ministry
told the reporters today.
`Before Spitak earthquake neither of buildings in Armenia were
9-magnitude earthquake resistant. There are 4,850 seismic
non-resistant multi-apartment buildings in Yerevan,' he said.
Khlghatyan said the state does not have means to fortify the
buildings. `Billions of sums are necessary, the state cannot do
anything as of the moment,' he stressed, not being able to say the
concrete amount of the needed money.
The specialist said the newly built houses in Yerevan are
earthquake-proof and safer than those built during the soviet years.
tert.am
12:38 - 16.08.12
Eight-magnitude earthquake in Yerevan will cause cracks on the
breakaway buildings in Ajapnyak, while a stronger earthquake will
cause partial and complete collapses, Zaven Khlghatyan, head of the
Earthquake Resistant Construction Center of National Service for
Seismic Protection (NSSP) of Armenia's Emergency Situations Ministry
told the reporters today.
`Before Spitak earthquake neither of buildings in Armenia were
9-magnitude earthquake resistant. There are 4,850 seismic
non-resistant multi-apartment buildings in Yerevan,' he said.
Khlghatyan said the state does not have means to fortify the
buildings. `Billions of sums are necessary, the state cannot do
anything as of the moment,' he stressed, not being able to say the
concrete amount of the needed money.
The specialist said the newly built houses in Yerevan are
earthquake-proof and safer than those built during the soviet years.