Abstract
Abstract. We report the technical realization and performance of thirty temporary seismic broadband deployments for the AlpArray project in eastern Austria and western Slovakia. Reftek 151 60s sensors and Reftek 130/130S digitizers form the core instrumentation of our seismic stations; these are mostly installed inside abandoned or occasionally used basements or cellars in small buildings or huts. We describe our type of installation and briefly introduce the site conditions for each of the thirty installations. We present a probabilistic power spectral density analysis to assess the noise conditions at all sites and potential relations to the installation design.
Highlights
We report the technical realization and performance of thirty temporary seismic broadband deployments for the AlpArray project in eastern Austria and western Slovakia
The seismic stations described in this manuscript are part of the international AlpArray temporary seismic network
Temporary seismic stations installed in the framework of AlpArray should be multi-purpose stations that perform reasonably well for frequencies from above to below the microseism peaks
Summary
The seismic stations described in this manuscript are part of the international AlpArray temporary seismic network (www.alparray.ethz.ch). AlpArray is a unique European transnational research initiative: 45 research institutes from 18 countries join their expertise to advance our knowledge about the structure and evolution of the lithosphere beneath the entire Alpine area (Hetenyi et al, 2016). While the primary scope of AlpArray is fundamental research, the unique dataset will improve our knowledge about near-surface geologic structures and help to assess the seismic hazard in the Alpine area. We describe the site selection criteria, technical realization and noise performance of thirty temporary seismic broadband stations operated by the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna in the context of AlpArray in eastern Austria and western Slovakia (see Table 1 for a complete station list). Few of the stations were already described in more detail by Fuchs et al (2015)
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