Taipei, March 19 (CNA) in expanded alarm in Taiwan on the devastation that can be caused by earthquakes, the Weather Bureau Central (CWB) said Saturday that the first Taiwan underwater earthquake detection system will go into service in October.
Preparations for the installation of early warning equipment begins Saturday with the laying of a submarine cable 45 km off the coast of Toucheng, in the County of Yilan of Taiwan in the Northeast, and this phase of the project would be carried out in Junethe Office said.The surveillance system would be fully reay in time for seven months, said the CWB.
The installation of two sensors and a tonnage of tsunami quake is part of a project of MACHO (Navy Observatory hosted cable) that the Office has presented in 2007 to provide information in real-time to Taiwan on earthquakes and tsunamis and improve its scientific research capacity Navy.According to Kuo Kai - wen, Director-General of the seismological Office Center, the Centre is now capable of detecting approximately 18 000 earthquakes in Taiwan, every year, 70% strike off the coast of the Atlantic coast of the country.
New sensors would improve the detection rate of mild earthquakes 50 percent, which would help provide better information on seismic activity, he added.Submarine earthquake sensors and gauges of tsunami may give a warning that 10 seconds faster than can and land equipment also more effectively monitor the submarine volcanoes, said Kuo.
According to the Office, plans were also deployed to install another Observatory of submarine earthquake off the coast of the East coast of Taitung Taiwan County.The Japan had eight systems underwater observatory at its eastern coast, but there was none of these regions in the Northeast, which were the areas hardest hit by the earthquake on March 11 and the tsunamithe Office said. (With l. j. Liu and Wang Flor) enditem /pc
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