The Acting Director of VMGD, Allan Rarai said, “Most of these equipment are given through projects and handed over to the government when the project ends.”
Mr Rarai said, out of these 229 equipment, 10 are Automatic Weather Stations (AWS), 41 Manual instruments located in 7 Synoptic weather stations throughout the provinces, 5 Automatic Rain gauges (ARG), 52 manual rain gauges, 11 earthquake seismic stations, 9 Volcano Seismic stations, 6 Volcanic Webcams, 4 tide gauges and 19 Tsunami sirens.
