Preliminary study on the Earthquake Alert System

지진네트워크를 이용한 지진경보시스템 예비연구

It is essential to establish an earthquake alert system real-time seismographic data acquisition and data transmission by dedicated communications,. Up to now approximately 60 earthquake stations are installed in Korea and being operated by KMA. KEPRI,. KINS and KIGAM and its number will be increased in time. The earthquake data recorded in half of these stations are transmitted to data center and analysed in quasi real-time. Therefore if these real-time seismographic stations be connected to each organization by dedicated lines and we will develop an algorithm which we can calculate the magnitude and epicenter within 25-30 seconds after an earthquake occurred it will be possible to develop an Earthquake Alert System giving several tens of seconds warning in advance.