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Earthquake in Armenia 14:30 / 26.05.2014
On May 26, at 15:19, the Armenian National Seismic Protection Survey released an information, according to which, at 14:58 local time, a magnitude- 3.3 earthquake hits Armenia, 14km west from Stepanavan. The tremor measured magnitude 4-5 at the epicenter area. The geographical coordinates of the epicenter are north width 41.00օ and east length 44.22օ. The hypocenter of the seismic activity was 10 kilometers beneath the surface. According to preliminary information, the...
Consultation at MES 12:17 / 26.05.2014
On May 26, the regular weekly consultation was held at the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the RA, chaired by Minister Armen Yeritsyan. Director of Rescue Service, r/s major-general S. Azaryan reported about the incidents registered and implemented activities during the week. According to the agenda, the participants of the meeting reported about the ongoing works. The rescue service of NKR and the regional rescue service departments participating at the session...
Minister of Emergency Situations was presented new seismic devices 16:54 / 23.05.2014
On May 23, Minister of Emergency Situations of the RA Armen Yeritsyan received a delegation from the Institute of Geophysics and Engineering Seismology after A. Nazarov of NAS RA. During the meeting, experts from the institute of Geophysics and Engineering Seismology, headed by director John Karapetyan presented seismic devices made at the institute: their technical characteristics, possibilities and advantages. Devices enable to study the epicenter after earthquakes, fix weak and...
Revelations made by Head of the MES SFTS Inspectorate 14:30 / 23.05.2014
At today's press conference, the Head of State Fire and Technical Safety Inspectorate of the RA Ministry of Emergency Situations Ashot Mkrtchyan introduced the MES inspection new policy, the implemented inspection reforms, technical and fire safety causal analysis, as well as activities conducted by SFTS inspectorate to reduce corruption risks. State Fire and Technical Safety Inspectorate of the RA Ministry of Emergency Situations, by an explanatory - warning letter alerted...
911 dispatchers are passing high-class trainings 11:08 / 23.05.2014
On May 23, Minister of Emergency Situations Armen Yeritsyan received the representative of German Red Cross of the regional organization of Baden-Wuerttemberg Wolfgang Schmidt, who is the authorized person to cooperate with the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia and a senior lecturer of the course of “Training dispatcher- operators”. The meeting was also attended by the director of national platform of DRR Movses Poghosyan and program coordinator of UNDP DRR Armen Chilingaryan....
There was no hail in protected areas 10:27 / 22.05.2014
There are 442 anti-hail stations, 4 regional centers and 2 radar stations in Armenia. On May 21, at the meeting with the journalists, director of “Center on Active Impact on Atmospheric Phenomena” SNCO Armen Karapetyan, noted that the stations operate at high efficiency. The regional centers are in Lori, Aragatsotn, Ararat and Armavir and the radiolocation stations are in Aragatsotn and Lori regional centers. 72 anti-hail stations are in Nagorno-Karabakh, 165 are in Armavir,...
