Ahmedabad: Institute of Technology - Gandhinagar (IIT-Gandhinagar), in collaboration with California Institute of Technology (CIT), is trying to develop a 'slight early' earthquake warning system.
As per sources, researchers at IIT-Gandhinagar have undertaken a project to develop a 'slight early' earthquake warning system. In addition, the institute has teamed up with California Institute of Technology (CIT), Pasadena, USA, to develop a system with a dense network of low-cost motions sensors capable of sensing earthquake's seismic activity beforehand.
Prof. Girish Singhal, project incharge at IIT-Gandhinagar, has said that the aim of their project is to put in place a network of small devices called accelerometers, near an active fault line, which can pick up earth vibrations. He also informed that they can be independent devices for transmitting data to a central server.
Furthermore, Singhal has claimed that a mesh of very low-cost sensors in that area shall be able to pick up the velocity of shock waves, issuing slightly early alerts of an earthquake. Singhal, along with two final year B.Tech students, is working on this project at IIT-Gandhinagar. The initiative is projected to be of enormous help to first responders during a calamity.
