Earth Sounding Network

Summary

Nodes - Lead nodes ANU and University of Adelaide

EIF funding - A$ 4.3 million

Project duration - January 2011 to December 2014

To provide capability for seismic arrays with very small inter-station spacing and high sample recording rates, utilizing artificial sources, ambient noise, local earthquake sources, and where available, induced seismicity, associated for example with geothermal stimulation tests.

Infrastructure

• New generation short period recorders
• Earth data recorders
• Electric field multichannel loggers
  
  • Rapidly deployable dipole electric field loggers, with data storage for at least a year of data (at 1 Hz) and GPS timing. The electric field dipoles would be used with a remote magnetometer site (existing sensors from AuScope) to generate MT responses, to monitor self-potential (SP) fields, or can be used as part of a monitoring network for time-domain EM.
• Ocean Bottom Seismometers

Access

Currently as part of the program there are 25 Earth Data recorders available for deployment. Access to equipment is via ANSIR.

Contacts

Nick Rawlinson – ANU
Graham Heinson – University of Adelaide

Last updated 5 September 2012