They can gather even more life-saving data than traditional water level gauges.
“If the data stream from that station had been available and analysed as our research now shows, essential real time information on the magnitude and velocity of the flood would have been available,” Michael Dietze, lead author of the new research and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Göttingen, said in an American Geophysical Union“The current network of water level stations is not enough to be adequately prepared for future...
catastrophic flooding in the future. That could be a game changer for other flood-prone places because “the current network of water level stations is not enough to be adequately prepared for future events,” Dietze said. The seismometer, on the other hand, was able to safely sense the flood’s movement from about 1.5 kilometers away. Not only did the sensor survive, but it was also able to gather more holistic data than the hydrological stations would have been able to collect even if they had stayed standing. That’s because most river gauges are limited to measuring water levels.
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