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Survey for Seismic Protection
Ministry of Emergency Situations of Republic of Armenia
Countryy Report:
pRepublic
pof Armenia
Syuzanna Kakoyan
Leading specialist
Department of sociology and psychology

ADRC Visiting Researcher 2016

The disasters in Armenia

3.15%

1.5%

1.2%
0.15%0%Earthquakes
Mudslides
Landslides and rockfalls

94%

Floods
Irradiation

Survey for Seismic Protection
Ministry of Emergency Situation of RA
Disaster Response and Manegment

www.mes.am

SurveyyforSeismic
Protection (SSP) wasfounded
under
theGovernment
oftheRepublic of Armenia on
July 17, 1991. Armenian
SSP is under the Ministryof Emergency Situation.

Laws and regulations
Seismic Protection activities are regulated by a number oflaws and legislative acts and national programs of theRepublic of Armenia:
Law of RA The Law of the Republic of Armenia on Seismic Protection (2002)

Th ComplexTheCl Program
Poff Seismic
S i i Risk
Ri k Reduction
R d ti ini theth RA Territory
T it(1999)

Resolutions ofGovernment

The Complex
p Programgof Seismic Risk Reduction in Yerevan cityy (1999)()

The Resolution of the Government of RA on establishment of the list ofcritical important and general facilities in the field of seismic protection(2003)

Regulation “National Survey for Seismic Protection” Agency (2008)

The basic ggoal of SSP is Seismic Risk
Reduction in Armenia
Armenian SSP has
developed two Strategic
National Programs on "Seismic Risk Reduction inArmenia"
Armenia "Seismic Risk Reduction inYerevan-city".
Yerevancity .

The Programs, adopted by theGovernment of the Republic ofArmenia on the 10th and 7th of July in1999 are designed for 30 years. All
the Ministries and other
Governmental,non-Governmental andprivatei t organizations
i ti
will
ill iimplementltthese National Programs under theggeneral co-ordination of Armenian
SSP assigned by the Government as a
responsible body for the Seismic Risk
Reduction Strategy development andimplementation.

Map of the epicenters of earthquakes withmagnitude M≥2.5
M≥2 5 for time period 1962-2015
1962 2015

Map of faults

Seismic risk map
p of Armenia

The Armenian SSP Task Force members

seismologist-seismotectonist• seismologist• geo-technician• earthquake engineer• communication engineer
bli awareness expertt• public• logistics, rescuer• psychologist•

Seismic risk reduction Strategy includes:
Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment
9 Vulnerability reduction in urban areas, including reinforcement andupgrading of existing buildings, design of new codes and standards
9 Public awareness, people education and training
9 Early warning and notification
9 Partnership establishment, involving public and privateorganizations
9 Risk management, including Emergency Response and RescueOOperationsi
9 Disaster relief and people rehabilitation
9 Insurance
9 State disaster Law and regulations
9The Centre of Activities with Population
The CentreTh
Coff Activities
A i ii
withi h Population
Pl i(CAP) consistsioffDepartments of Education, Methodology, as well as of Sociology
and Psychology.
Psychology
The Department of Education implements trainings on code ofconduct of seismic protection in schools of Yerevan and regions ofArmenia according to an established schedule. It carries out
instructional warning/alarm drills and exercises for schoolchildren
off different
difft age groups. It alsol conducts
d t lecturesl tf thefor
th regionalil
areas officials of SSP.

The Department of
Methodology performs
development ofeducational programson earthquakes fordifferent segments
gof
the population.

The Department of Sociology and Psychology where I
am employed conducts social-psychological research,sociological surveys, as well as processing andpsychological analysis of data. It also takes part in thecooperation with respective services of foreigncountries and with international companies, as well as
in the process of development, implementation andintroduction of the results of projects and soundscientific methods in the sphere of seismic protection.

As the leading specialist of theDepartment ofSociology and Psychology,social-psychologicalgare implementedp
byy me,, the ggoals ofinvestigations
which are to reveal the level of cognitive andpsychological preparedness on earthquakes among
different segments of population.

Disaster education at kindergartens and schools

Disaster education at companies and municipalities

As a Visiting Researcher at AsianDisaster Reduction Center
myresearch topic will be:
Disaster education and humanresource development.
pThe Main Goal
Th mainThei goall off my researchh during
d i my stayt
in Japan will be, to investigate and compare
the International and Japanese experience in,,Disaster
Disaster education and human resource
development ,, field.

Yerevan, Republic of Armenia
Syuzanna Kakoyan
T l +374 94118189
Tel:E-mail: s.kakoyan@gmail.com

ARMENIAN SSP