| Abstract -- 
           
              The earthquake center of Central Weather Bureau has set up a program 
              to promote the earthquake strong motion’s data collection over the 
              Taiwan island since 1992. The purpose is to establish an over 1000 
              acceleragraph system to collect reliable strong motion data for 
              earthquake hazard analysis. Among them, 600 instruments are deployed 
              on the free field to monitor the earthquake center of Central Weather 
              Bureau has set up a program to promote the earthquake strong motion’s 
              data collection over the Taiwan island since 1992. The purpose is 
              to establish an over 1000 acceleragraph system to collect reliable 
              strong motion data for earthquake hazard analysis. Among them, 600 
              instruments are deployed on the free field to monitor the ground 
              motion. In order to maintain the instrument and to collect the data, 
              the system has been divided into 7 areas, and distributed among 
              the universities and research institutes to share the load of data 
              acquisition. Our research group is in charge of area of Central 
              Taiwan which has 167 stations including the counties of Taoyuan 
              (21), Hsinchu (24), Miaoli (28), Taichung (44), Nantou (23), and 
              Changhua (27), a total area of 150 km x 140 km. The duties of this 
              project include 1) instrument maintenance, 2) data acquisition, 
              3) background noise analysis, and 4) documentation and basic signal 
              analysis. All of these efforts will direct toward collecting high 
              quality strong motion records and making the system operate more 
              smoothly and reliably. 
            
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