At present time, the Institute of Seismology and Atmospheric Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan is completing the development of a new map-scheme of seismic microzoning of Ashgabat, which will become a regulatory document for builders. This was reported in the newspaper “Neutral Turkmenistan”.

To create it, a new innovative method was developed - a system for the automated construction of a model of the velocity structure of the near-surface strata.

Also, scientists have prepared a new “Methodology for conducting micro seismic studies of the territories of seismic zones of Turkmenistan” with obtaining the necessary information about the resonant characteristics of soils and the distribution of seismic velocities to certain depths.

In the future, based on the results of the ongoing work, a map of the seismic risk of the territory of Ashgabat will be drawn up, which will be the basis for the purposeful and reasonable development of a set of measures to reduce seismic risk.

The Institute of Seismology and Atmospheric Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan is a specialized scientific institution that carries out fundamental research in the physics of the earthquake source, regional seismology, geophysics, and modern geodynamics. Specialists have accumulated a solid experience of scientific work.

Since 2013, a network of modern Guralp-GEOSIG digital seismological stations has been operating in Turkmenistan, which, along with local and regional seismic events, permit recording more distant earthquakes with the accumulation of a database of converted waves that carry information about the block-velocity structure of the surrounding seismogeological environment.

Since 2019, the Institute has been one of the active executors of the State Program “Seismic risk reduction in seismic zones of Turkmenistan”.