Seismic Accelerograph Philippines Buyer's Guide

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PHILIPPINE INSTITUTE OF VOLCANOLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY  EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION NO. :  2  PHIVOLCS Bldg, C.P. Garcia Avenue, U.P.- Diliman, Quezon City, PHILIPPINES Tel.: 426-1468  Fax: 927-1087 Date/Time                    : 03 Jan 2018 - 02:31:01 AM Location                       : 09.41°N, 125.63°E - 015 km N 59° E of Jabonga (Agusan Del Norte) Depth of Focus (Km)   : 024 Origin                          : TECTONIC Magnitude                   :  Ms 4.0 Description                  : EP...

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PHILIPPINE INSTITUTE OF VOLCANOLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION NO. :  2  PHIVOLCS Bldg, C.P. Garcia Avenue, U.P.- Diliman, Quezon City, PHILIPPINES Tel.: 426-1468  Fax: 927-1087 Date/Time                    :  02 Jan 2018 - 08:04:06 PM Location                       :  06.14°N, 126.98°E - 115 km S 60° E of Governor Generoso (Davao Oriental) Depth of Focus (Km    :  062 Origin                          :  TECTONIC Magnitude                   :  Ms 4.4 Description                ...

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PHILIPPINE INSTITUTE OF VOLCANOLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY  EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION NO. :  3  PHIVOLCS Bldg, C.P. Garcia Avenue, U.P.- Diliman, Quezon City, PHILIPPINES Tel.: 426-1468  Fax: 927-1087 Date/Time                      : 31 Dec 2017 - 10:53:29 PM Location                         : 05.34°N, 124.87°E - 060 km S 14° W of Maasim (Sarangani) Depth of Focus (Km)     : 032 Origin                             : TECTONIC Magnitude                      : Ms 5.2 Reported Intensities     :  Intensity IV- General Santos City; Lake Sebu, South Cotabato; Alabel, Sarangani Intensity III - Davao City; Lebak, Sultan Kudarat; Tupi,...

(Second of a series…) This guide strongly encourages the buyers to go the extra mile in their procurement process to come up with a most credible short list of undisputed worthy suppliers. Evaluation teams should be resourceful enough to properly check in detail, backgrounds, business reputations and current business standings of potential suppliers. Most importantly, the unquestionable stability and soundness of the company that you will be buying from. Why? because the Earthquake Monitoring Device stands to operate for at least a period of 10 years based on the Guidelines and Implementing Rules on Earthquake Recording Instrumentation for Buildings. Chapter 12 of which reads as follows: "XII.      SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE The seismic monitoring system shall have a maintenance clearance as per the requirement of the National Structural Code of the Philippines under Section 105.2. “Maintenance and service shall be provided by the owner of the...

(First of a Series) Seismic Accelerographs are very expensive. A single unit will easily cost you an average of well over and about a million pesos (Philippine Currency) more or less, certainly much more than the price of some quality brand-new cars. Prices range from a little less than a million pesos to around 2 million pesos for a single unit depending on the brand and supplier that you will be dealing with. But why so expensive? Is it worth the usefulness of the device? Only the suppliers can answer these most commonly asked questions and the best that buyers can do is to thoroughly require them to provide you with more than satisfactory answers. With so much cost involved in purchasing seismic accelerographs, one must be fully equipped with utmost care and purchasing knowledge as this equipment will be installed in the very structures that you will be spending a lot of your working time in, supposedly, with your safety and the structural health in mind. Diligence in t...