New tsunami monitoring stations to appear in Russia’s Far East in 2010

12.03.2010 (17:33)

Ten more automated tsunami monitoring stations will be set up in Russia‘s Far East Federal District before the end of the year.

Six stations will appear in the Sakhalin region, two in Kamchatka, and two in Primorye territory as part of the federal government‘s program aimed at "reducing the risks and alleviating the consequences of natural and industrial emergencies in the Russian Federation in 2010," Tatiana Ivelskaya, head of the Sakhalin tsunami monitoring center, told Interfax.

Today, the Sakhalin region has five stations, including one in the town of Severo-Kurilsk on Paramushir Island of the Kuril chain, Primorye territory has three stations (in Vladivostok, Preobrazheniye and Rudnaya Pristan), and Kamchatka has three (in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vodopadnaya and Nikolskoye on Bering Island), Ivelskaya said.

"According to recommendations issued by the intergovernmental coordination group of the Pacific Ocean tsunami alert system, there should be at least one such station per 100 kilometers. This requirement is particularly relevant to the Pacific Ocean‘s most earthquake-prone zones, including Japan, the Kuril Islands, Kamchatka, the Aleutian Islands, Alaska and Chile," the Russian official said.

The deployment of an additional network of tsunami monitoring stations along the coast of Russia‘s Far East this year will significantly facilitate the operations of the domestic tsunami alert service and will help raise its work "to a qualitatively new level," she said.

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