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[Frontier Letter] MOWLAS: NIED observation network for earthquake, tsunami and volcano
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) integrated the land observation networks established since the 1995 Kobe earthquake with the seafloor observation networks established since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami as MOWLAS (Monitoring of Waves on Land and Seafloor) in November 2017. The purpose of MOWLAS is to provide comprehensive, accurate, and rapid observation and monitoring of earthquake, tsunami, and volcano events throughout Japan and its offshore areas. MOWLAS data are widely utilized for long-term earthquake forecasting, the monitoring of current seismic activity, seismic and tsunami hazard assessments, earthquake early warning, tsunami warning, and earthquake engineering, as well as earthquake science. The application of recent technology advancements to real-time observations as well as the processing of MOWLAS data has contributed to the direct disaster mitigation of ongoing earthquakes. View articles:
- Aoi et al. (2020): MOWLAS: NIED observation network for earthquake, tsunami and volcano. Earth Planets Space 72:126, doi.org/10.1186/s40623-020-01250-x.
- This article was a Frontier Letter to the special issue of "20th Anniversary Issue: Earth, Planetary, and Space Science in the Next Decade".
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