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ANAS vice presidentâ€™s reaction to reports on seismic threat to BTC

01 June 2009 12:41 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Kamala Guliyeva â€“ APA. Seismological situation is stable in Azerbaijan now, said vice president of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Akif Alizadeh, APA reports. He said Shaki-Shamakhi zone located in the Great Caucasus mountains and southern hill-side of the Great Caucasus, as well as Talish mountains were the most seismic active zones of Azerbaijan. He said he didnâ€™t agree with the ideas that construction of multi-storey buildings in the seismic active zones was impossible. â€œThe geologically sustainable buildings can be constructed in the most dangerous seismic zones. Azerbaijan can sustain 7-8 magnitude earthquakes. The country is located in the 9-magnitude seismic zoneâ€.

Alizadeh said several seismic stations were conducting monitoring throughout the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. â€œSometimes the newspapers are writing about the seismic threat to BTC. It is not so. There are some seismic zones in the BTC areas, which are monitored now. There are such active zones in other areas of Azerbaijan too and therefore it wouldnâ€™t be correct to raise the BTC seismic zones onlyâ€.