“It is therefore my hope that these stations will boost our nation’s capabilities on geo-hazard monitoring, early warning, and early action and further improve our national resilience,” he said. Represented by the Director, Disaster Risk Reduction department, Alhaji Alhassan Nuhu, the agency’s D-G stated that the goal of the project was to improve data availability and research by students in Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki and Federal University of Technology, Minna in geo-hazard monitoring. “The impact of these hazards on lives, properties and the environment depends to a large extent on the country’s level of preparedness on efficient early warning and early action.” “Nigeria like any other country is faced with both natural and human induced disasters including those related to geo-hazards. He said, “There is no doubt that today’s occasion marks a landmark achievement in our strive as a nation to enhance on the effective monitoring of seismic events in Nigeria. He said it would help in averting “hazards related to earthquakes and tremors alongside their attendant effects on lives and infrastructure.Īccording to Sidi, the commissioning of the Nigerian National Network of Seismological Station (NNNSS) in EBSU was a landmark achievement by the FG towards tackling the environmental disaster in Nigeria. We use this new dataset to calculate horizontal‐to‐vertical spectral ratios, which provide a preliminary characterization of site response of the upgraded MM stations.BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Efforts by the Federal Government (FG) to tackle various problems of environmental disaster such as tsunamis, earthquakes, landslide and tremors in Southern Nigeria Wednesday received a boost, as it commissioned a modern seismic stations in Abakaliki Ebonyi State, south east Nigeria.ĭirector General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Muhammad Sani Sidi, during the inauguration of the station located at the Ebonyi State University (EBSU) by the agency, affirmed that the establishment of two seismic stations in Niger and Ebonyi states would “enable the agency to disseminate early warning” MM stations recorded more than 20 earthquakes of M≥4.5 within Myanmar and its immediate surroundings, including an M 6.8 earthquake located northwest of Mandalay on 13 April 2016 and the M w 6.8 Chauk event on 24 August 2016. Background noise characteristics vary across the array, but indicate that the new stations are performing well. We analyzed station noise characteristics and site response using noise and events recorded over the first six months of station operation. Data are telemetered to the MNSN hub in Nay Pyi Taw and archived at the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology Data Management Center. We installed five permanent broadband and strong‐motion seismic stations and real‐time data telemetry using newly improved cellular networks. Seismac stations upgrade#In January 2016, a major upgrade of the Myanmar National Seismic Network (MNSN network code MM) was undertaken to improve earthquake monitoring capability. Until recently, earthquake monitoring and research efforts have been hampered by a lack of modern instrumentation and communication infrastructure. Myanmar is in a tectonically complex region between the eastern edge of the Himalayan collision zone and the northern end of the Sunda megathrust.
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