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The Spitak destructive earthquake (M=7.0) occurred in December, 1988 in Armenia has shook entire world by enormous scale of destructions and casualties, when 25.000 people died, over 20.000 were injured, 515.000 became homeless, all the large settlements of the Northern part of Armenia was practically destroyed, which is not turning out well to be recovered till now. For the first time in disasters practice all the countries of the world have took sincere and active part to support suffered country. Spitak earthquake of 1988 has indicated, that the states, even with opposite political order are ready to render humanitarian assistance to any country in case of large-scale disaster. Successful interaction of different countries during Spitak tragedy became a trigger in 1988 for many of international projects’ and programs’ development directed to disaster reduction. One of such programs has became the UN-IDNDR.
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Balassanian, S. (2000). Seismic Risk Reduction Strategy in the XXI Century. In: Balassanian, S., Cisternas, A., Melkumyan, M. (eds) Earthquake Hazard and Seismic Risk Reduction. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9544-5_1
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