Main duties of this division are as follows: to provide the necessary measures for constructing earthquake resistant structures, to provide and develop basic principles of rehabilitation of structures damaged by earthquakes.

This division is responsible for the establishment, operation and development of National Seismological Observation Network and to carry out microseismic activity monitoring within Turkish-German project on earthquake prediction and to study aftershock activities. It also sets up and operate the strong motion recording stations covering the whole country.

This division is in charge of carrying out two international joint projects. The first one is Turkish-German project of earthquake prediction and the other one is Turkish-Japanese project of Earthquake Disaster Prevention Research Center. This section is also responsible for building and updating a GIS which covers earthquakes and other data for the whole country.