The suitability of various recording methods and devices for registration of seismic signals

Abstract

Analytical study and summarization of dynamic and frequency characteristics of the seismic-acoustic vibrations originated by the near and distant earthquakes and other natural and artificial seismic processes, as well as information analyses of their duration and repetition were done. These allow the formulation of appropriate technical requirements for seismic recording devices, as well as to analyze and evaluate the possibilities of implementing various methods and devices for recording signals from different seismic-acoustic processes depending also on the seismological and other tasks to be solved and various additional specific requirements.It has been shown, that although the introduction of various methods and devices for the digital recording of seismic signals substantially increased during the last decades in seismology, however, it is not even possible to record seismic signals in their entire possible amplitude-frequency ranges employing a single digital recording device too.It also has been confirmed that the widespread usage of digital recording, transmission, machine processing, and analyzing of seismic signals in most contemporary seismic stations does not reduce the value and does not eliminate the need, but, on the contrary, assumes the conduction of simultaneous analog visible registration of seismic processes to obtain express controlling visible records, provide operational manual express analysis of seismograms.