Three seismic monitoring stations:
Lanka can read quakes quickly
Nimal Wijesinghe Anuradhapura Additional District
Group correspondent
With the installation of two new seismic monitoring stations at
Mahakanadarawa and Hakmana in North Central and Southern Provinces, the
country has three such stations including Pallekele. Seismic monitoring
mechanism, linked to GSMB Head Office Dehiwala.
The Geological Surveys and Mines Bureau under which these systems are
operating had been able to decode the earthquake which took place off
shore in Japan last Friday within just eleven minutes, GSMB Chairman Dr
N A Wijayananda said.
He said "with the recent enhancement global earthquake signals
through modern and highly sophisticated equipment gifted by German
Government on an MOU with the GSMB Sri Lanka now can read all medium and
large scale earth quakes happening in any part of the world, and we are
highly benefited", Dr Wijayananda emphasized.
He said that the particular earthquake took place at 5.46 gmt and the
GSMBs Dehiwla Head Office was able to decode the signals at 5.57 GMT
with the help of high tech seismic mechanism available there, according
to Dr Wijayananda.
He said if a serious type of earthquake taking place in Java-Sumathra
sub-duction zone the seismic signals would be decoded in Sri Lanka at
Dehiwala GSMB Seismic Monitoring System within two to three minutes. |