$1M for better ’quake monitoring
PA Wellington The Seismological Observatory will improve New Zealand’s earthquake monitoring network, said the acting director, Dr Michael Randall.
Up to $1 million will be spent over the next few years on the project, which will use digital seismographs designed and built in New Zealand. A prototype of the new seismograph is still being built but it will do away with the old system of recording earthquake intensity on rolls of graph paper. Tremors will be recorded instead on magnetic tape which can be more readily analysed by computer.
Dr Randall said equipment available from Japan or the United States was not of high quality. The D.S.I.R. had the expertise to develop its own instruments with the ability to pick up the smallest tremors as well as accurately measuring the largest earthquakes. The prototype should be working and tested by the middle of next year. It could take another six months to find a manufacturer and about two years for all the new instruments to be installed. Each instrument would cost about |IO,<XW. A $300,000 computer system was also being planned, he said.
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