Myanmar to cooperate in global earthquake model foundation program

Myanmar will cooperate with the international community in carrying out the global earthquake model (GEM) foundation program, a local weekly journal said on Tuesday.

The project of collecting facts worldwide related with earthquake to produce map was set to finish in 2013, the Pyi Myanmar said.

Representatives of Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines attended the related workshop held in Singapore which was also joined by Germany, Italy and Switzerland.

After the project was finished, every nation can locate the place hit by earthquake, it added.

Meanwhile, the Myanmar Earthquake Committee (MEC) and Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) are cooperating in earthquake monitoring by collecting data from southern sections of the Sagaing fault, which is a major source of earthquakes in southern Myanmar, an earlier report said.

Under an agreement reached between the two parties in Yangon in April last year, the EOS was to be responsible for providing equipment and technical expertise, while the MEC for collecting data.

In November last year, Japanese paleoseismologist Dr. Hiroyuki Tsutsumi and a team of MEC researchers dug a trench in Kyauktaga, Bago division.

Source: Xinhua