Azerbaijan: Dangerous situation in landslide area in Khatayi district of Baku

March 6, 2012

Baku. Kamala Guliyeva – APA. “Intensive changeability is observed for 3 days in the area of landslide between General Shikhlinski street and Ganja avenue of Khatayi district.

Landslide process is still going on”, chief of Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry’s party studying hydrogeological, engineering geological and hydrogen geological processes, candidate of geological-mineralogical sciences Shaig Niftiyev told APA.

To him, deputy PM Abid Sharifov has today held a conference in connection with it: “Plan of measures has been drafted in relation to landslide. Emergency measures must be taken in order to prevent the landslide process in the area”.

“In order to study the deepening of reinforcement works in the area and determination of landslide’s dynamics, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources will continue engineering geological researches. Appropriate bodies have been tasked in relation to other measures”, added Niftiyev.

He noted that currently, the width of the landslide makes 150 m, length – 230-250 m. the width and length of cracks has grown within the last 2 days, sedimentary processes had intensified and the landslide is developing actively.

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