Peak hour №1 06.02.1995 (1995)

The guest in the studio is the director of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences Oleg Starovoit, who talks about the recent earthquake in Japan, about the lack of short-term earthquake forecasts in the modern world, reveals the concept of the term "

short-term forecast", talks about the nature of earthquakes, about seismically active zones on Earth, about the complexity of predicting earthquakes, about seismically active zones on the territory of Russia - the Kuril-Kamchatka, North Caucasus, Altai-Sayan and others, about the timing of the onset of the "

year of the active Earth", about the dialectic nature of the earthquake process, about earthquakes as a source of knowledge about the structure of the Earth and its deep processes, about the results of observations of the earthquake in Japan, about the forecasts voiced by seismologists, about the reduction in the number of seismic stations in Russia due to the lack of funds for their maintenance and about the possible negative consequences of this reduction, about the need to study various aspects of an earthquake, about the zones of the most probable earthquakes in Russia, about preliminary preparation population of earthquake-prone areas to tremors, about preventive measures to protect against earthquakes in earthquake-prone areas and the timeliness of such measures, about failure to comply with protective measures during construction of buildings, about the complexity of predicting earthquakes, about the difficulties of attracting young personnel, answers calls from TV viewers about geophysical weapons, about determining the strength of an earthquake on the Richter scale, about the near-term probability of earthquakes in Kamchatka and Moscow (synchronously).

Profile: photographs by O. Starovoit.

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