Institute of Geophysics and Engineering Seismology after A. Nazarov

Engineering seismology, seismic hazard and risk

Assessing how strongly the ground can shake at a site and what that means for buildings, infrastructure and planning.

Laboratory Engineering seismology, seismic impact analysis and seismic hazard assessment

Seismic resistance of buildings and structures, geotechnics

Studying the behaviour of structures and foundation soils under seismic loads to make construction safer.

Laboratory Seismic resistance of structures and building constructions

Seismometry and scientific instrument engineering

Designing, building and calibrating seismic sensors and geophysical measuring equipment.

Laboratory Geophysical instrument engineering and metrology

Seismic and geodynamic network, monitoring and modelling

Operating the CHARNET stations, locating earthquakes in real time and modelling seismic and geodynamic processes.

Laboratory Seismology and earthquake prediction

Artificial intelligence and big data in seismology

Applying machine learning to the continuous CHARNET data stream: automatic phase picking, event detection and building earthquake catalogues.

Laboratory Mathematical geophysics and geoinformatics

Earthquake early warning

Real-time processing at the Gyumri data centre detects an earthquake and issues an alert before strong shaking reaches more distant sites.

Laboratory Seismology and earthquake prediction

Deep processes and geodynamics

Investigating the deep structure of the Earth’s crust beneath Armenia and the processes that drive its deformation.

Laboratory Structural geophysics, deep processes and geodynamics

Geomagnetism, observatory data and geoinformatics

Recording the geomagnetic field at observatories, maintaining long data series and building geoinformation tools.

Laboratory Geomagnetism