Significant technical advances in broadband seismic stations in the Lesser Antilles
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2018-03-14T14:13:45Z
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Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union
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In the last few years, French West Indies observatories from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), in collaboration with The UWI Seismic Research Centre (SRC, University of West Indies), have modernized the Lesser Antilles Arc seismic and deformation monitoring
network. The global network of the IPGP-SRC consortium is now composed of 20 modernized stations, all equipped with broadband seismometers, strong motion sensors, Global Positioning System (GPS) sensors and satellite communication for real-time data transfer. This upgraded network feeds the Caribbean TsunamiWarning System supported by UNESCO and establishes a monitoring tool that produces high quality data for studying subduction and volcanic processes in the Lesser Antilles arc.
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Earthquake/ seismic monitoring, Lesser Antilles, Seismic Stations, Monitoring Network