CSIO team awarded for developing earthquake-warning system

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 27

The team from the Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO) here that had developed the Earthquake-Warning System for Regional Notification of Substantial Earthquake has been awarded by the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) for its innovation.

Established in 1953 to promote, develop and commercialise technologies, inventions, patents and processes emanating from various national research and development institutions as well as universities, the NRDC functions under the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The earthquake-warning system is aimed at averting colossal loss of human life and infrastructure as forecasting an earthquake is not yet possible. It is a network of five seismic sensing nodes that detects seismic waves travelling underground when an earthquake erupts. This sets off an alert in split seconds and vital systems such as electrical grids, nuclear plants, refineries or railway networks can be shut down before damaging seismic waves hit the area or trigger off other pre-set responses.

Felicitating the team comprising Satish Kumar, Ripul Ghosh, Ashish Gaurav, Siddhartha Sarkar and Amarendra Goapwas, CSIO Director Prof RK Sinha pointed out that there are many spin off technologies of this system that can be used in border management and wildlife management.

About the system

The earthquake-warning system is aimed at averting colossal loss of human life and infrastructure as forecasting an earthquake is not yet possible. It is a network of five seismic sensing nodes that detects seismic waves travelling underground when an earthquake erupts. This sets off an alert in split seconds and vital systems such as electrical grids, nuclear plants, refineries or railway networks can be shut down before damaging seismic waves hit the area or trigger off other pre-set responses.