WHAT IS PLANNED FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS?
Although the BSL has come a long way in the last 10 years, there is still a long way to go toward the goals of preventing death, injury, and property loss from earthquakes. We have made progress in our ability to record even the largest earthquakes with fidelity and our datalogging system should ensure that no data are lost due to power or communication failures. This means that data will be available for post-earthquake studies in earth science and engineering design. However, our ability to provide information immediately following a major earthquake depends on the performance of the telecommunications systems. At this point, the BSL depends primarily on landlines both to bring data in and to push information out. We have some experience with satellite systems (4 stations have transmit data by satellite and phone) but currently lack the funding to replace all of our landlines. The satellite communication market is quite volatile at the present and it may be possible for us do this in
