RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROBABILITY MAPS OF SEISMIC ZONING OF THE TERRITORY OF KAZAKHSTAN BASED ON MODERN METHODOLOGY

Minimization of fatalities, material damage, and socio-economic destruction due to earthquakesdepends on reliable estimates of seismic hazard. The paper presents the methodological foundations of seismichazard assessment developed for Kazakhstan, the basic requirements and the list of work required to carry outseismic zoning of territories at different scale levels – general, detailed and microzoning. They were tested during thecreation of Maps of General Seismic Zoning of the Territory of Kazakhstan, which were included in regulatorydocuments in 2017 and Maps of Seismic Microzoning of Almaty on a new methodological basis. A new approach toseismic hazard assessment is based on a methodology that complies with the main provisions of Eurocode 8 “Designof structures for earthquake resistance”, meets the needs of earthquake-resistant design and construction, isprobabilistic and allows to assess seismic hazard not only in seismic intensity according to MSK-64(K) scalecommon for Kazakhstan, but also in quantitative parameters – peak ground accelerations. For each type of seismiczoning, general objectives are defined that can be solved with consideration of the scale of developed maps.