Description
The Central Asian region (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, and the eastern parts of China) is an ideal natural laboratory for studying the interaction of earthquake and climate-controlled hazards and their impact. Very often, natural catastrophes have a triggering effect leading to cascade phenomena and a simple single risk analysis procedure might be insufficient to provide end-users and stakeholders with realistic scenarios. This strategy characterises the GCO-CA as a unique geohazard-georisk observatory. The GCO-CA relies on instrumentation, such as the HyMet regional monitoring network, the Central-Asian Real Time Earthquake Monitoring Network (CAREMON), the Bishkek Vertical Array, and the High Elevation Glacial Station “Gottfried Mertzbacher".
