NORSAR or Norwegian Seismic Array was established in 1968 as part of the

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- US agreement for the detection of

earthquake An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity, from ...

s and

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Located at

Kjeller Kjeller is a village located near Lillestrøm in the municipality of Lillestrøm, Norway. It is located 25 kilometers north-east of Oslo. Name The Norse form of the name was probably ''Tjaldir''. This is then the plural of ''tjald'' n 'tent'. The ...

, north of

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, NORSAR runs and maintains seismic arrays in Norway and it is the designated Norwegian National Data Centre for the

Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a multilateral treaty to ban nuclear weapons test explosions and any other nuclear explosions, for both civilian and military purposes, in all environments. It was adopted by the United Nation ...

. NORSAR conducts basic seismological research, develops software and provides consultancy for the

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NORSAR was the first non-US site included in

ARPANET The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foun ...

in June 1973 with a connection via the Tanum Earth Station in Sweden to the Seismic Data Analysis Center (SDAC) in Virginia, United States. It was the connection point for ARPANET to spread to Peter Kirstein's research group at

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(UCL) the following month in July 1973. Connecting through NORSAR, the

Norwegian Defence Research Establishment The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (''Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt'' – ''FFI'') is a research institute that conducts research and development on behalf of the Norwegian Armed Forces and provides expert advice to political and mi ...

, along with UCL and

RSRE The Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE) was a scientific research establishment within the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the United Kingdom. It was located primarily at Malvern in Worcestershire, England. The RSRE motto was ''Ubique ...

in Britain, were involved in testing

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. UCL provided a gateway between UK academic computer networks and the ARPANET via NORSAR. Since 1999, NORSAR has been an independent research foundation.

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* {{authority control Government agencies of Norway Research institutes in Norway Foundations based in Norway Organisations based in Skedsmo Organizations established in 1968 Earth science research institutes Seismological observatories, organisations and projects

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