Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, October 09 2010:
A Central Receiving Station (CRS), modernised seismic monitoring system, will be set up in Imphal, located in the sixth most quake-prone belt in the world.
An official source at the Meteorology Department, Imphal Airport said that after commissioning of the regional station, more accurate seismic activities relating to earthquake would be known.
The ambitious project is to be taken up by the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES).
The station would be a VSAT-based Real Time Seismic Monitoring Network (RTSMN) which would connect with two Central Receiving Stations (CRS)�one in Shillong and the other in New Delhi.
This two CRS are to be commissioned soon.
The RTSMN would be a satellite based system and it would have 21 stations across eight North Eastern states.
Approximately ' 25 lakh would be spent on each station for commissioning the equipment and developing necessary infrastructure.
Apart from Imphal, the RTSMN stations would be located in Guwahati, Tezpur, Dibrugarh, Dhubri, Silchar, Jorhat and Lekhapani in Assam; Yupia, Tawang, Pashighat and Zero in Arunachal Pradesh; Tura and Shillong in Meghalaya; Mokokchung and Kohima in Nagaland; Agartala and Belonia in Tripura, Aizawl and Saiha in Mizoram and Tadong in Sikkim.
After commissioning of the RTSMN, more accurate seismic activities relating to earthquake would be known, the officials said.
The Geological Survey of India (GSI) earlier notified that the mountainous North East comprising eight states could experience a devastating earthquake as the region is considered by seismologists to be the sixth worst quake-prone belt in the world.