Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 26: NHPC Limited, India's premier hydropower company and a 'Mini Ratna' Category-I Enterprise of the Government has established a Real Time Seismic Data Centre at its Corporate Office Complex at Faridabad. The Real Time Seismic Data Centre was inaugurated by KM Singh, CMD, NHPC in the presence of experts from National Centre for Seismology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, other senior NHPC officials and technical experts from ESS, Earth Sciences, Australia and ABEM, Sweden. Through this state-of-art advanced data centre NHPC has now connected its 18 power stations for receiving the earthquake data recorded at dams on real time basis. NHPC is the only hydropower utility in the country to have such data centre that includes in-house seismic data processing and interpretation capabilities. On this occasion, a three day workshop on Seismological Considerations in Hydropower Design & Accelerograph Data Processing was also inaugurated by KM Singh, CMD, NHPC. |
