Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

Survey Center of ANAS on scientific and scientific-organizational activity for 2024 was presented.

The report was delivered by the Center’s General Director, corresponding member of ANAS Gurban Yetirmishli, who mentioned that in 2024, the Center conducted research covering 3 problems, 5 topics, 10 scientific research works, and 3 topics and 8 scientific research works were completed. 

In the report year, 1 textbook, 37 articles (10 abroad), and 13 theses (9 abroad) were published at the Republican Seismic Survey Center of ANAS. Six of the published articles appeared in impact factor journals indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases.

Gurban Yetirmishli emphasized that the Republican Seismic Survey Center of ANAS is an active member of international organizations such as EMSC (European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre), IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology), ORFEUS (Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology), ESC (European Seismological Commission), EGU (European Geosciences Union), and AGU (American Geophysical Union). It collaborates scientifically with seismological and geophysical institutes in over 30 countries.

It was underlined that last year, a presentation and discussion of the “Seismic Hazard Map of the territory of Azerbaijan” was held. This map was developed with new approaches to calculate the seismic hazard for the territory of Azerbaijan together with the University of Victoria in Canada, the Standing Committee on Earthquake Design of the National Building Code of Canada, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the USA, Michigan State University, and the Institute of Earth Sciences and National Seismic Monitoring Center of Ilia State University in Georgia. He also added that the connection between earthquake foci and tectonic shifts in the territory of Aşağı Kür (Lower Kura) Depression is studied, and work continues on development of preliminary maps (for the Caspian Sea and coastal areas).

Gurban Yetirmishli said that the journal “Seismoprognosis Observations in the Territory of Azerbaijan”, the scientific publication of the Republican Seismic Survey Center of ANAS, is one of the first three journals from Azerbaijan included in Türkiye’s Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK) DergiPark electronic database starting from 2024. He also mentioned that work is ongoing to obtain an international e-ISSN code for the publication and to include it in the Scopus international indexing system.

The Director General also spoke about the staff potential of the Center, preparation of personnel, enhancing the integration of science and education, popularizing science, as well as grants and awards, the state of electronic science, the activities on Wikipedia, as well as the functioning of the Center’s website and social media accounts.

After the discussions, the report of the Republican Seismic Survey Center of ANAS on the scientific and scientific-organizational activities for 2024 was approved by the decision of the Presidium of ANAS, and it was decided to include the significant results in annual report of ANAS.

Reyhan Majidli, Public Relations, Press and Information Department of the Presidium Administration of ANAS

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