Victor Wong Ortega
Seismology Department
Earth Sciences Division - CICESE
October 10-11, 2013
BAJA CALIFORNIA:
• Baja California is located in the
tectonic border of the Pacific
and the North America plates.
• This region is tectonically
active and generates seismic
activity continuously.
• This region is capable of
generates moderate to big
earthquakes that could be
dangerous to populated
region
After the bigger earthquake
never recorded in Baja
Instrumentation of 42 new seismic stations in
the region of Mexicali Valley, Mexicali and
Tijuana cities connected to CICESE in real time
by internet.
23 accelerometers stations, 5 in Tijuana and
18 in Mexicali.
26 Broadband and accelerometer seismic
stations in the Mexicali Valley and in the
Baja California state.
Agreements of collaboration with CaltechUSGS-CENAPRED-CICESE to monitor and share
seismic data in real time.
¿What next…?
Monitoring the seismic activity in real time to inform the local,
state and federal authorities about the earthquakes with
relevant magnitude that are occurring in the region.
¿How we can do
this:
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radio?
Telephone?
Commercial Internet?
Satellite internet?
Each red star is a 6 channel (3 acceleration, 3 BB velocity) seismic station, 100 sps, 24 bits
resolution.
Automatic earthquake location and magnitude,
5 minutes after the occurrence.
Earthquake information by SMS and WEB pages
to people, media and authorities.
Earthquake higher intensities recorded, 30
minutes after the earthquake and the
intensities distribution maps (Shake Maps).
Sharing seismic data with SSN, SCSN-Caltech
and others…
Seismic monitoring and its objetive…
Earthquake
Origen time
Seek for a safe
place
Wave
propagation
Information
flow
Earthquake
analysis
CICESE and USGS will deploy an informationsharing system to be better prepared when a
seismic event occurs.
This implies transferring very large volumes of
data among these institutions – on the order of
hundreds of Gigabytes. (Middle of 2013)
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This will allow the implementation of high
performance cyber infrastructure for research
and development.
Establish new ways to collaborate and sharing
knowledge in USA and Mexico countries.
It also represent challenges in order to find new
ways of sharing information.
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Thanks…
Real - Time Station