New initiative helps forecast earthquakes more accurately

It is an initiative of a satellite system to monitor seismic activity from space, to predict the possibility of earthquakes and volcanoes more accurately. This initiative is part of the TwinSat satellite project, which consists of two phases jointly implemented by a group of British and Russian scientists.

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In the first phase, two two-year experimental satellites will be launched - ultra-small TwinSat-1M satellites and TwinSat-1N nanosatellite - into low-range orbit (LEO) from Earth about 400km.

Satellite system is responsible for observing and detecting seismic disturbances

Along with observations from satellites, the group also combined underground observatories to detect early signs of earthquake risks, especially in the Iceland region and Kamchatka peninsula in the Far East. Russia.

Next is the development and implementation of a practice system to detect and monitor earthquake premonitions. This system is likely to mobilize to a constellation of satellites consisting of nearly 15 spacecraft, space labs, network of geophysical stations in seismic and complete infrastructures. The soil helps it operate and perform a good early warning function.

In the context of the current earthquake prediction methods, it still has not given people accurate, truly reliable warnings about the risk of earthquakes, if the project succeeds and goes into practice, there will be Extremely large value, even more than the cost of deploying.

The TwinSat project will be officially launched in 2015, by Professor Vitaly Chmyrev of the Institute of Earth Physics (IPE) - Russia and Professor Alan Smith of Mullard Space Science Laboratory under Lon Don University ( UCL) - England leads.