Dundo - The Seismic Station of the National Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics (INAMET) in Dundo, in Lunda-Norte, is back in operation, after two months of interruption, ANGOP learned Tuesday.
In January this year, the station was out of service due to the theft of two solar panels, batteries and electrical cables. Speaking to the press, INAMET's head of geophysics division, Francisco Canhanga, said that a new 180-volt solar panel, a battery and new electrical cables had been installed, as well as reinforced infrastructure security, with police officers National and Angolan Armed Forces (FAA).
He said that with the recovery of the station, the country will once again be able to obtain, for example, information about the precise location of an earthquake (epicenter), its depth, energy released, the mechanism that generated the shock and the path through which the waves traveled. to reach the place where they were generated to the sensor that detected them.
He added that the Dundo Station also has the capacity to detect possible natural phenomena and/or earthquakes, coming from the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The DRC, he continued, also depends on the aforementioned station to detect any phenomena originating in Angola. Angola currently has a seismic network made up of five stations, made up of state-of-the-art sensors that help transmit information on the movement of the Earth's crust (tectonic plates) in real time to the INAMET central server, distributed across the provinces of Bengo, Cuanza-Sul, Lunda-Norte, Moxico and Huíla.
Technological sensors enable seismic monitoring, encouraging the preservation of life and support for different socioeconomic sectors, especially civil construction.
The technician reiterated that the aim, as part of the modernization of meteorological equipment, is to implement another 13 new seismic stations, in provinces with pretensions to seismic phenomena. JVL/HD/TED/DOJ
