地震学家们正期待着苏联政府批准建立一个全国性的警报系统,以减少象去年12月袭击了亚美尼亚那样的地震所造成的破坏。苏联科学院地球物理研究所的地震预报研究项目负责人索博列夫(Gennady Sobolev)说:“我们知道如何建立一个预报、警报系统。”但是,他在会见政府日报——苏维埃俄罗斯报记者时说:“由于我们没有足够的仪器设备进行充分的地震监测,因此,我们的短期预测网很不完善。”索博列夫估计,在易震区建立监测台网需要花费3亿卢布(3亿英镑)。苏联有1/4以上的地区处于高地震危险之中。索博列夫说,受影响的地区主要在远东和 Seismologists are looking forward to the Soviet government’s approval of the establishment of a nationwide alert system to reduce the damage caused by the earthquake that hit Armenia in December last year. Gennady Sobolev, head of earthquake forecast research at the Institute of Geophysics at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, said: “We know how to set up a forecasting and warning system.” However, he said in a press briefing with the government daily, the Soviet Russia newspaper : “Because we do not have enough equipment to conduct adequate seismic monitoring, our short-term forecasting network is poor.” Sobolev estimates that it would take 300 million rubles (300 million pounds) to build a monitoring network in the earthquake zone ). More than a quarter of the Soviet Union is at high risk of earthquakes. Sobolev said the affected areas are mainly in the Far East