About location
In the forests behind the town of Kašperské Hory, by the creek of Zlatý potok, there is the historic Kristýna adit, where the Institute of Geophysics established an extremely sensitive seismic station in the 1960s. The Kristýna adit originates from 1805 and was first used for gold mining, but now seismic sensors are located in its three branches. Kašperské Hory Station has been a part of the Czech Regional Seismic Network and the World Network of Seismic Stations since its establishment.
Next to the Kristýna adit, there is a Museum of Seismometry in the original wooden building of the seismic observatory from 1959. Visitors to the Museum of Seismometry will learn about the near 2000 year-long history of instruments for measuring earth movements, together with seismometers and their development over the past century, and how seismic signals are recorded and processed. Visitors will learn a lot about earthquakes and what they mean, the propagation of seismic waves and their effects, as well as the structure of the Earth and the seismicity of Central Europe.
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