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Director of Cybernetics Institute: â€œAzerbaijan can forecast earthquakes in Caspian Sea regionâ€

11 January 2012 14:31 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Kamala Guliyeva â€“ APA. â€œAzerbaijan can forecast the earthquakes in the Caspian Sea regionâ€, Director of the University of Cybernetics of the Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) Telman Aliyev told APA. He noted that Turkmenistan was interested in the activity of ANAS Cybernetics Instituteâ€™s stations forecasting the earthquakes and asked the organization to assist in installing such stations: â€œIf such stations are installed in Turkmenistan, the forecasting of earthquake will cover entire Caspian Sea basinâ€.

Aliyev said that two stations forecasting earthquakes were operating in Azerbaijan. One of them is a station installed in Gum Island on May 1, 2010. Another station was installed in Shirvan. The work is carrying out on the installment of such station in Naftalan and Siyazan: â€œThese stations will be installed in the next three months. Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies also supports this process. The server will be established by means of the ministry and the reports transferred by the stations will be included to the server. It is possible to predict the earthquakes within a radius of 500 km 10-12 hours before. It will be possible to give the concrete coordinates of the abnormal seismic processes in that radius after 4 stations start their activityâ€.

Institute director also said that 4 additional stations are considered to be installed in order to increase the reliability of the forecasts in the future.