Oman National Seismic Network – Kinemetrics systems deliver high performance and extraordinary reliability for over 20 years

The Earthquake Monitoring Centre (EMC) is a national Omani research centre, located at Sultan Qaboos University. EMC was established in 2001 to record local, regional, and global earthquakes.

The EMC receives real-time data streams from remote seismic stations for further seismic data processing, alerting, and archiving. The recorded data is also used for studies on local seismicity and geophysics as well as for advanced seismic research. One main objective of EMC is to establish seismic hazard maps, which can be used by planners and engineers to reduce the risk of earthquake damages.

Kinemetrics’ open-architecture Aspen seismic monitoring and information platform, consists of 20 remote seismic stations and the Data Centre, it has been designed to support additional network augmentations without any interruption to concurrent operations. All of Oman’s EMC network Aspen remote stations are exclusively based on Kinemetrics’ Quanterra® 26-bit (Model Q330HRS) field data acquisition systems, Kinemetrics’ surface EpiSensor accelerometers as well as the Streckeisen broadband STS-2, and STS2.5 seismometers. The EMC Aspen Data Centre operates the commercial and mission-critical Antelope data acquisition and processing software …more