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Over the wide frequency range of seismic waves transmitted through the Earth (hundreds of seconds to ten cycles per second), the sensors of the permanent and transportable arrays must be capable of resolving the smallest background motions at the quietest of sites, while remaining “on-scale” for all but the largest ground motions from regional earthquakes.

EarthScope Instrumentation


Seismic
GPS
Strainmeters
Campaign/Flexible

USArray Instrument Pages

IRIS - USArray Facility
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Flexible Instrument Availability

Flexible Seismic Array Instrument Schedule

Image of Siesmic Instrument and Navigation to USArray Project Pages at www.iris.edu

A transportable array of 400 portable, unmanned three-component broadband seismometers deployed on a uniform grid that will systematically cover the US.


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For applications in which the flexible array is used for observations of artificial sources (explosions or vibrators) at short ranges, the longer periods (below 1 sec) are not as important, but higher frequencies (up to 100 hz) must be recoverable for high-resolution studies.    more ›