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PROJECT NAME:

Prediction of earthquakes by observation facilities analysis on diastrophism

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND CURRENT LOCATION:

Communications Research Laboratory(CRL), Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT), Japan.

PROJECT COORDINATOR:

Mr. Noboru Yoshida, Director of Technology Development Division, Communications Policy Bureau, MPT

BRIEF OVERALL PROJECT SUMMARY:

Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) is completing observation facilities of wide-area diastrophism by using Very Long Baseline Interferometers (VLBI) and Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) which enable the most accurate observation of the earth with a view to predicting the earthquakes.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

This project is to continually monitor 3D changes of diastrophism at 4 metropolitan observation stations (Koganei, Kashima, Miura, and Tateyama) with accuracy of several millimeters.

EXPECTED/ACTUAL RESULTS:

This project will make possible daily observation of diastrophism with an accuracy by several millimeters which will provide advance notice of a severe directly below ground earthquake which it is feared will occur in the Metropolitan area.

PARTNERS/ACTORS IN THE PROJECT:

Communications Research Laboratory, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

USE OF INFORMATION/TELEMATIC TECHNOLOGIES:

Space geodetic technologies, Laser technologies

BENEFITS TO THE INFORMATION SOCIETY:

This project will contribute to the maintenance of the information society by observing diastrophism everyday and give warning of a severe directly below ground earthquake that may happen in the Metropolitan area.

EXPECTED COST:

(N.A.)