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The location of the Barham Seismology Station is at: - Photo by Nick Catford - for more information click to Subterranea Britannica |
Barham has its own seismology
station - forming part of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence
network of stations used in connection with the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
verification process.
It was opened in June 1960 and is said, by the MOD, to have been closed in September 1991 but is probably still operating as it is listed by the Federation of Digital Broad-Band Seismograph Networks as having a code of BHM, being in the "Blacknest" programme and having characteristics listed as "BB, 85db, vertical only". On a visit by the Royal Observer Corps in 1994 it was said to be in good external condition. A quantity of paperwork was removed, during the visit, and donated to the ROC museum. One of the papers referred to 'routine checks for UKNET seismograph equipment'. There were, apparently, two dozen large batteries on the floor, sufficient to run the equipment unattended for several years. |
