BKS Webinar: Earthquake Hazards, Risks, and pathways to resilience in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan has a long record of large earthquakes. The potential for earthquakes presents challenges in assessing hazards, modelling risks, and building resilience for urban growth and development of energy and transport infrastructure. Within this panel discussion we will show how the historic and prehistoric past can be used to help inform where earthquakes hazards are present, and will discuss some of the ways in which increased knowledge of hazards can help reduce risks. We will emphasise how the effects of earthquakes are not confined within national borders, presenting opportunities for international cooperation and knowledge exchange.

Host and Moderator:

David Hardy - BKS, Director

Speakers:

Richard Walker - Professor in the Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford. He has spent over 20 years researching earthquake processes and their societal effects, with a current emphasis on the central Asia region

Aidyn Mukambayev - Seismologist and the deputy head of Kazakhstan’s National…