Tatevosyan Ruben : the small magnitude and big destructions of an earthquake in Afghanistan

18.10.2023 the Observer "Sciences and lives" Leskova Natalia learned from the deputy director of IFZ RAN concerning engineering seismology and an assessment of seismic danger, the head of the laboratory of strong earthquakes and seismometry of IFZ RAN, the doctor of physical and mathematical sciences Tatevosyan Ruben why the earthquake to Wilayah of Herat was so destructive. Afghanistan – the seismoactive region. In east part of this country, on border with Tajikistan, there are deep-focal earthquakes. Their depth reaches three hundred kilometers. It is a so-called Pamiro-Gindukushsky zone...