The Building System of Volgograd Oblast Ignores Protection of Life of People in Buildings at Earthquake

According to the requirement of CR (Construction Rules) 14.13330.2014 “Construction in Seismic Regions” (actualized SNiP II-7-81* “Construction in Seismic Regions”) (with Change №1) the main task for builders of Volgograd Oblast is erection of buildings of the raised responsibility for preservation of life and health of people at the earth-quake. However, provisions of some standard documents of the Russian Federation of a building content allow them not to do so. The article substantiates that earthquakes within the territory of Volgograd Oblast can be at any time and with much higher intensity in comparison with the standard intensity on the scale ОSR-2015 (General Seismic Zoning of the Territory of the Russian Federation). The management of Volgograd Oblast is proposed to introduce immediately the provision about probability of earthquake within the territory of the oblast in the regional law of Volgograd Oblast № 1779-ОD of 21 November, 2008 “On protection of the population and the territory of Volgograd Oblast against emergency situations of natural and anthropogenic nature”, to conduct scientific work on determining tectonic faults on territories of settlements for correction of seismic hazard.

V.N. MASLYAEV, Candidate of Seienees (Engineering) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Scientific Research Seismolaboratory (1, Akademicheskaya Street, 400074, Volgograd, Russian Federation)

1. Masljaev A.V. Seismic danger in territory of the Volgograd region is underestimated by standard cards ОСР-97 the Russian Federation at the expense of simplification of tectonic conditions. Seismostoikoe stroitelstvo. Bezopasnost sooruzhenii. 2011. No. 6, pp. 46–49. (In Russian).
2. Zonenshajn L.P., Kuzmin M. I, Natopov L.M. Tektonika litosfernykh plit territorii SSSR [Tectonics castsphere plates of territory of the USSR]. Мoscow: Nedra. 1990. 334 p.
3. Milanovskij E.E., Koronovsky N.V. Orogennyi vulkanizm i tektonika Al’piiskogo poyasa Evrazii [Orogennyj volcano and tectonics of the Alpine belt of Eurasia]. Мoscow: Nedra. 1973. 280 p.
4. Hain V. E, Lomize M.G. Geotektonika with geodynamics bases. Мoscow: The Moscow State University. 1995. 480 p.
5. Judahin F.N., ShChukin J.K., Makarov V. I. Glubinnoe stroenie i sovremennye geodinamicheskie protsessy v litosfere Vostochno-Evropeiskoi platformy [Deep structure and modern geodynamic processes in a lithosphere of the East European platform]. Ekaterinburg: UrО RAN. 2003. 300 p.
6. Platonov A.S., Shestoperov G. S., Rogozhin E.A. [Utochnenie seismotektonicheskoi obstanovki i seismicheskoe mikroraioni-rovanie uchastka stroitel’stva gorodskogo mosta cherez r. Volgu v Volgo-grade. 1a. Seismotektonicheskie issledovaniya] Specification of seismotectonic conditions and seismic microdivision into districts of a site of building of the city bridge through the river Volga in Volgograde. 1а. Seismotectonic researches. Mocow: CNIIS. 1996. 126 p.
7. Rejsner G. I., Ioganson L.I. Look-ahead estimation of seismic potential of Russian platform. Nedra Povoljya i Prikaspiya. 1997. No.13, pp.11–14. (In Russian).
8. Masljaev A.V. Analys of Provisions of the RF Federal Laws and Normative Documents Concerning the Use of the RF Maps of Seismic Hazards (ОSR-2015) in Construction. Zhilishchnoe Stroitelstvo [Housing construction]. 2016. No. 8, pp. 3–8. (In Russian).