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On 25 May the Armenian Government approved landslide disaster management plan of the Republic of Armenia. The objective of landslide disaster management plan is to reduce landslide risks and damage by taking proper anti-landslide measures. According to the official information, Armenia has 2504 landslide areas with the deciphering of the photos, thus, 233 communities in the country are located in landslide hazardous areas, where hundreds of residential houses are damaged together with communication ways and other objects necessary for life. 240 km out of 7400 km of road network (3.2%) has been damaged with 280 landslides, while 4.8 km out of 870 km of total railway network (0.5%) has been damaged with 10 landslides. According to the research group of International Japanese Cooperation Agency, in 2004 145 landslide area data were inventoried, and as the data show, the direct damage caused to the socio-economic structures in the republic makes up 19,395 billion AMD, while the potential damage accounts for 23,985 billion AMD.
May 25, 2017 at 17:09