A 9-score Richter shock will destruct 30% of the city, forecasts the Emergency Response and Relief Vice-Minister Ibragim Kulshimbayev. Mr. Vice-Minister explained what particular locations in Almaty were the safest.

Almaty is located in one of the most seismically volatile regions of Kazakhstan.  The city rests on 27 tectonic subduction zones.  Most of those zones are in the foothills.  Least hazardous is the Turksib District of Almaty.  Other districts are located above faults and threats and hazards there are higher,

Mr. Kulshimbayev reported to Mass Media at the press-briefing.

Inside buildings, the safest places are spots under load-carrying structures and pillars of the walls.  The last Turkish earthquake, following which Kazakh rescue rangers took part in the relief operations, proved that.

Do not run to stairways, those are the most dangerous locations.  Kazakh rescue rangers paid attention to the fact that the majority of victims were found in stairways. People should stay inside their homes, under pillars and load-carrying walls, where some apertures will form,

the Vice-Minister emphasized.