The Destruction of Settlements in Countries During Earthquakes Will Be Repeated

The destruction of several settlements at the same time during earthquakes in Turkey in February 2023 only due to the lack of sufficient strength of buildings and structures indicates that the process of destruction of settlements during earthquakes in different countries will still be repeated periodically. All this is only because in all recent such destructions during earthquakes in different countries, one main reason can be seen in them is that the regulatory construction documents of these countries provide for the calculation of buildings and structures only for significantly underestimated values of earthquake intensities. So, for example, in SP 14. 133302018 (Russia) even for calculations of the most massive residential and public buildings of settlements, only the minimum values of earthquake intensities are used. It is only for this reason that during the recent earthquakes in Armenia (1988), in Russia (1995, Sakhalin, Neftegorsk), in Turkey (2023), catastrophic destruction of settlements occurred with the death of many thousands of people. Moreover, in the joint venture SP 14.13330.2018 in the calculations of buildings and structures, there is even no accounting for the impact of repeated strong shocks (earthquakes), without which, as a rule, a strong earthquake does not occur. At the same time, numerous seismic devices are also missing in the territories of Russian settlements, which does not allow specialists to determine more accurate parameters of seismic impacts during an earthquake on construction sites.

A.V. MASLYAEV, Candidate of Sciences (Engineering) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Research Seismic Laboratory (27, bldg. A, 51, Zemlyachki Street, 400117, Volgograd, Russian Federation)

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