Chapter 492 Abnormal
Java Island.
The headquarters building of Diting Company.
Global Geological Activity Monitoring Center.
Geological survey stations densely distributed in Southeast Asia, South Asia, South America and Africa, geological exploration airships that regularly fly over the high seas around the world, and magnetic field monitoring satellites in low-Earth orbit form a complete geological monitoring system.
This global geological monitoring center processes more than 36.7 million terabytes of data every day and issues hundreds of earthquake warnings every day.
After all, most of the regional branches of Zhiren Company are located in earthquake zones, so the work of Diting Company is very busy.
Hideki Ikeda, who was in charge of the monitoring center, had just had a cup of locally produced Java coffee when Olympus, the leader of the Pan-Pacific team, knocked on the office and walked in.
"Olympus, what's going on?"
"Vice President Ikeda, just now the 25th magnetic field satellite detected some abnormal magnetic field activity when it passed the coast of California in the northeastern Pacific Ocean." Olympus quickly explained.
Ikeda Hideki narrowed his eyes. "Some? I'm afraid it's very obvious magnetic field activity?"
Olympus nodded : "You should go to the Geological Hazard Analysis Office in person!"
"OK, I'll be there right away." Hideki Ikeda picked up his tablet and followed Olympus to the geological disaster analysis office on the 5th floor.
More than two hundred analysts are busy analyzing various data. Their main job is to study plate activities and geological disasters based on the data that have been collected and the earthquake data that have occurred.
Especially those areas where major earthquakes are likely to occur are their focus of work.
Hideki Ikeda went straight to the team responsible for analyzing pan-Pacific geological hazards.
"How is it going?"
An analyst had a serious expression: "This is not good, Vice President, look here..."
On a holographic geological structure map, an obvious fault zone is marked, and part of the area is surrounded by red dots. The red dots are the hotspots of abnormal magnetic field activity.
Ikeda Hideki recognized the fault zone at a glance: "Cascadia Fault Zone?"
He swept his fingers around, magnifying the structure of the strata, and examined it carefully for more than ten minutes, his expression becoming increasingly solemn.
"The length of the magnetic field anomaly area is 140 kilometers, and the width is 28.3 to 29.7 kilometers. The sedimentary rocks in the rock layer are shale-type, and the rocks near the California coast are metamorphic rocks. The iron content is about 11 to 13%. This is not good, very bad..."
An analyst nearby added: "Supercomputers have simulated the stratum stress model of the area and found that the probability of faulting in this stratum is currently as high as 83%."
“When is the likely time of the outbreak?”
"We are still monitoring it, and it is estimated that within 20 to 50 days..." Before the analyst finished speaking, another piece of data just detected popped up on his power screen.
He looked at it, raised his head and said, "This is the data from three minutes ago. The magnetic field activity at that location of the Cascadia Fault Zone has increased again."
Ikeda Hideki thought for a moment, then ordered , "Dispatch one of our monitoring airships on the west coast of North America to focus on monitoring that area."
"OK." Olympus nodded.
"Analysis team, please work hard to determine the time, intensity, and scope as soon as possible."
"yes."
Although this location is on the west coast of North America, it does not mean that it will not affect the Sapiens company.
That year, a magnitude 9.5 earthquake struck the Republic of Santiago in South America, causing severe damage locally and setting off a tsunami that affected the entire Pacific Ocean. Thousands of miles away along the coast of Japan, the highest wave measured reached 3.35 meters.
The West Pacific branch of the Sapiens Company operates in an area that includes many islands in the central Pacific Ocean.
Some islands formed by coral reefs have an average altitude of less than ten meters. If they encounter a tsunami of more than ten meters, it would be a disaster.
This is no joke.
He quickly ran to the general manager's office.
General Manager Kapil Bose has been negotiating with Osman recently. The other party has always wanted to purchase earthquake prediction services, but is unwilling to open up the market and is also unwilling to listen to the company setting up a full-power geological survey station in the local area. Therefore, the two sides have been negotiating.
For Di Ting Company, it doesn’t really matter whether it makes money or not, but a full-powerful geological survey station must be established.
Kapil Bose, who was very patient, was not moved at all by the Ottoman Republic's conditions for increasing the money.
He was looking at the map at this moment.
According to the map, there are global geological survey stations of Diting Company throughout Africa.
In South America, the Redwood Federation and a few other small shrimps also chose to compromise. After all, they are now barefoot and are not afraid of wearing shoes. They are accustomed to accepting the bullying of the Homo Sapiens Company.
On the contrary, the Republic of Santiago, the Republic of the Pampas, the Inca State, and the Equatorial State of South America, which had been flirting with the Free Association, were stubbornly holding back on all sorts of internal complaints and simply refused to cooperate with the Sapiens Company.
Kapil Bose rubbed his temple helplessly.
"General Manager Bose, are you free?"
Seeing Ikeda Hideki at the door, Kapil Bose nodded and said, "Come in and sit down."
Ikeda Hideki got straight to the point: "The monitoring satellite just detected an abnormality in the Cascadia Fault Zone in North America."
As the head of the Diting Company, Kapil Bose naturally made up for a lot of basic geological knowledge, and he is very familiar with the Cascadia Fault Zone.
"What happened to this fault zone?"
"In the part of the fault zone near California, there is a high probability that a rock rift will occur in the near future."
Upon hearing this news, Kapil Bose's heartbeat accelerated involuntarily: "California? If I remember correctly, there was also an earthquake of magnitude 9 in this place in 1700, right?"
Ikeda Hideki nodded carefully. "Yes, and this fault zone has a major earthquake every 500 years or so. 325 years have passed since 1700, and the fault zone has entered an active period again."
Kapil Bose asked, "What is the expected earthquake level? What is the approximate deadline?"
"It will probably be around magnitude 9.1 to 9.3, and the time will be within 20 to 50 days."
After learning these data, Kapil Bose fell into deep thought.
Ikeda Hideki reminded: "We need to prepare the Western Pacific Branch and Luzon Branch for tsunami as soon as possible."
Kapil Bose also reacted: "Is that so? Then you notify the Internal Affairs Department and ask them to prepare."
"no problem."
After Ikeda Hideki left in a hurry.
Kapil Bose was the only one left in the office, and he was thinking about how to maximize the profits.
Although America did not purchase the prediction service, it does not mean that Diting cannot profit from it.
However, he had to discuss some of his ideas with the company's management. After all, many things were not something he could decide on his own.
Two days later.
The management of Zhiren Company completed the discussion, and Li Qingye agreed to Kapil Bose's proposal and asked Wu Wei, the head of the external business unit, to be personally responsible for the matter.
At the same time, Di Ting Company also conducted a comprehensive analysis of the situation in the fault zone over the past two days and obtained relatively accurate data.
