article: May 12 2008 - April highlights

Last month's progress within the GeoNet project.

The new seismic station at Post Office Road.

• One new seismic station was completed and brought on line at Post Office Road, on the eastern side of the northern Tararua ranges.
• The web camera watching Ngauruhoe was upgraded; the previous camera had given faithful service since April 2002.
• A VSAT satellite connection was installed on Great Barrier Island and is now transmitting data from a hydrophone array. This will also serve a tsunami gauge and a seismic station that are planned to be built.
• Hazards information is now available in mobile and PDA-friendly form on the "mobile" GeoNet website.
• Sea level data recorded by the New Zealand Tsunami Monitoring Network is now available on the website, and a plot showing the recordings of the last 36 hours can be viewed.