LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN

of May 30, 2017 No. 1416

About seismic safety

Accepted by the Resolution MH MOPT of February 22, 2017, No. 706

Approved by the Resolution MM MORT of May 18, 2017, No. 385

This Law determines organizational, legal, economic and social basis of ensuring seismic safety in the Republic of Tajikistan.

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. Basic concepts

In this Law the following basic concepts are used:

- earthquake - tremors and the fluctuations of the land surface resulting from sudden shifts and gaps with emergence of tectonic processes in crust or the upper part of Earth's mantle and which are transferred to long distances;

- strong earthquake - earthquake which intensity on 12-mark seismic scale reaches above 5,0 of points;

- mitigation of consequences of earthquake - complex of the rescue and other urgent works which are carried out after emergence of earthquakes and directed to rescuing of life of people, decrease in the extent of damage and material losses;

- the forecast of probable earthquake - determination or refining of the place, time and magnitude of probable earthquake;

- seismic protection - complex of the legal, social educational, organizational, scientific, technical and other special events aimed at providing seismic safety;

- seismic safety - safety of life of people, infrastructures, objects of the national economy and the environment from the dangers resulting from earthquake;

- seismic division into districts - determination of sources of earthquakes with probable maximum magnitude on the basis of complex geological, seismological and geophysical data;

- seismic danger - probability of impact of earthquake of certain size in specific Item during the set time interval;

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