Seismic safety: new horizons .
The current state of seismic risk reduction is described. We discuss three approaches to this problem: seismic zoning and earthquake engineering, short-term earthquake prediction and artificial discharge of tectonic stresses. An attempt to understand the causes of chronic failures to forecast short-term destructive of seismic events is considered. Critically discussed the key tenets of theoretical geophysics, as well as some results of mathematical modeling of earthquake focuses. We emphasize the need for a common scientific methodology of short-term forecasting and technologies of seismic process management by artificial energy sources, we indicate to a close mutual relation of these ways in solving problems of seismic safety. It is proposed to conduct a large-scale geophysical experiment in seismically active regions of the Far East, providing wide scientific and research studies, development of new geophysical equipment, geophysical monitoring and artificial discharge of tectonic stresses in the framework of a unified concept of seismic safety.