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- Title
- Seimographic Networks: Problems and Outlook for the 1980s.
- File
- PB83203646.pdf
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.; Geological Survey, Reston, VA.; Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC.; Department of Energy, Washington, DC., April 1983, 80 p.
- Abstract
- Seismographic networks provide data essential to programs such as the mitigation of earthquake hazards and the safe siting of dams, power plants and other critical facilities in addition to providing the basic data necessary for many fundamental studies of the earth. This report is the result of a workshop to review the status and recurrent problems of seismographic networks, with particular emphasis on those funded by the Federal Government. Problems include the lack of necessary long-term funding for regional and global networks, the definition of a design lifetime for regional networks, the concept of a national network as well as those of maintaining and upgrading instrumentation and providing effective management for operations and data handling. Recommendations have been made to help alleviate these problems and to assure a viable observational capability for the future.
- Keywords
- Technology assessment; Networks; Global networks; Seismic arrays; Federal assistance programs; Questionnaires; Data acquisition; Earthquake engineering; Seismological stations; Management planning