According to the director of seismically-protected construction department of MES of Armenia, Zaven Khlghatyan, the main problems concerning earthquakes that we have are to know how ready the public is for it, what kind of buildings they live in.
“There are 4850 buildings in Erevan which don’t correspond to today’s standards, out of them the 5% (300 buildings) are in the state of danger of 3rd level”, said the expert.
He says a great amount of money is needed for putting reliable foundation. “The best way would be the elimination of buildings which are more than 50 years old.”
In average 500 thousand dollars are needed for putting this bases in 3 buildings, but now they came up with different other ways to have safer buildings.