Seismologists building new monitoring station in Karlovy Vary region

The Geophysical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences is building a new monitoring station near  Horka Dam in the Karlovy Vary region, an area where earthquakes have occurred most frequently on Czech territory in recent decades, the news site Novinky.cz reported. The station should help seismologists to obtain more accurate data than before. Geophysicists issue warnings if tremors of more than 3.5 magnitude are detected. The last time there was an earthquake in the area was last November, when it measured 3.2 degrees on the Richter scale.