In July 2025 Shenyang, Liaoning, China, hosted the International Symposium on Earthquake Forecasting to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the 1975 Haicheng M7.3 Earthquake (8–11 July) and, within it, the 4th Coordinators’ Meeting on Belt and Road Seismic Risk Reduction. IGES Director Jon Karapetyan took part and presented the China–Armenia seismograph and GNSS network.
The report
The report “China–Armenia Seismograph & GNSS Network on the Republic of Armenia. Roadmap for cooperation in the field of Seismic Hazard and Risk assessment” began with the geodynamics, seismicity and seismic hazard of the Caucasus and with the lessons of the Spitak earthquake of 7 December 1988.
It then presented the joint China–Armenia seismograph and GNSS network on the territory of Armenia and a roadmap for the next steps of cooperation in seismic hazard and risk assessment. See our stations →
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