WHOLESCALE: Seismic Waveform Data from San Emidio, Nevada 2022
Included here is a link to seismic waveform data collected at San Emidio, Nevada in 2022. The seismic instruments used were provided by EarthScope Consortium through the EarthScope Primary Instrument Center at New Mexico Tech. Data collected are available here through EarthScope at the link below. Detailed information on instrumentation, deployment, data collection, and data quality are provided in the attached paper.
In the spring of 2022, the WHOLESCALE team deployed 450 SmartSolo seismic instruments at the San Emidio geothermal field in Nevada. The deployment was executed in three phases: stakes were placed in the ground at locations using hand-held GPS receivers, seismographs were implanted next to the stakes, and seismographs were turned on to begin recording data in April. Three phases were necessary due to the combination of limits on the seismographs' battery life and personnel availability. This was the first project to use the low-power A-to-D mode instead of the standard high-resolution mode, which allowed a trade of a decrease in the digitizer's effective number of bits (from 21.8 to 21.5) for a 30% increase in battery life.
After approximately one month of observation, the seismographs were turned off, removed from the ground, and cleaned on May 6th (157 sites), May 7th (157 sites), and May 8th (136 sites). The data files were downloaded onto portable hard drives. The seismographs were then shipped to the PASSCAL Instrument Center where they were converted from the original (raw) SmartSolo (DLD) format to the more standard SAC at UW and also at the PASSCAL data Instrument Center. Methods and results of evaluating data quality are included in the attached paper and Word document.
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AB - Included here is a link to seismic waveform data collected at San Emidio, Nevada in 2022. The seismic instruments used were provided by EarthScope Consortium through the EarthScope Primary Instrument Center at New Mexico Tech. Data collected are available here through EarthScope at the link below. Detailed information on instrumentation, deployment, data collection, and data quality are provided in the attached paper.
In the spring of 2022, the WHOLESCALE team deployed 450 SmartSolo seismic instruments at the San Emidio geothermal field in Nevada. The deployment was executed in three phases: stakes were placed in the ground at locations using hand-held GPS receivers, seismographs were implanted next to the stakes, and seismographs were turned on to begin recording data in April. Three phases were necessary due to the combination of limits on the seismographs' battery life and personnel availability. This was the first project to use the low-power A-to-D mode instead of the standard high-resolution mode, which allowed a trade of a decrease in the digitizer's effective number of bits (from 21.8 to 21.5) for a 30% increase in battery life.
After approximately one month of observation, the seismographs were turned off, removed from the ground, and cleaned on May 6th (157 sites), May 7th (157 sites), and May 8th (136 sites). The data files were downloaded onto portable hard drives. The seismographs were then shipped to the PASSCAL Instrument Center where they were converted from the original (raw) SmartSolo (DLD) format to the more standard SAC at UW and also at the PASSCAL data Instrument Center. Methods and results of evaluating data quality are included in the attached paper and Word document.
AU - Lord, Neal E.
A2 - Sobol, Peter
A3 - Guo, Hao
A4 - Thurber, Clifford H.
A5 - Warren, Ian
A6 - Bustos, D.J.
A7 - Bradshaw, Sabrina L.
A8 - Feigl, Kurt L.
DB - Geothermal Data Repository
DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
DO -
KW - geothermal
KW - energy
KW - WHOLESCALE
KW - SmartSolo
KW - San Emidio
KW - Nevada
KW - DLD
KW - raw data
KW - EarthScope
KW - seismograph
KW - geophysics
KW - seismicity
KW - earthquake
KW - monitoring
KW - pumping
KW - seismology
KW - FDSN
KW - EERE
KW - PASSCAL
KW - SAC
KW - seismic data
KW - waveform
LA - English
DA - 2022/04/05
PY - 2022
PB - University of Wisconsin - Madison
T1 - WHOLESCALE: Seismic Waveform Data from San Emidio, Nevada 2022
UR - https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/1610
ER -
Lord, Neal E., et al. WHOLESCALE: Seismic Waveform Data from San Emidio, Nevada 2022. University of Wisconsin - Madison, 5 April, 2022, Geothermal Data Repository. https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/1610.
Lord, N., Sobol, P., Guo, H., Thurber, C., Warren, I., Bustos, D., Bradshaw, S., & Feigl, K. (2022). WHOLESCALE: Seismic Waveform Data from San Emidio, Nevada 2022. [Data set]. Geothermal Data Repository. University of Wisconsin - Madison. https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/1610
Lord, Neal E., Peter Sobol, Hao Guo, Clifford H. Thurber, Ian Warren, D.J. Bustos, Sabrina L. Bradshaw, and Kurt L. Feigl. WHOLESCALE: Seismic Waveform Data from San Emidio, Nevada 2022. University of Wisconsin - Madison, April, 5, 2022. Distributed by Geothermal Data Repository. https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/1610
@misc{GDR_Dataset_1610,
title = {WHOLESCALE: Seismic Waveform Data from San Emidio, Nevada 2022},
author = {Lord, Neal E. and Sobol, Peter and Guo, Hao and Thurber, Clifford H. and Warren, Ian and Bustos, D.J. and Bradshaw, Sabrina L. and Feigl, Kurt L.},
abstractNote = {Included here is a link to seismic waveform data collected at San Emidio, Nevada in 2022. The seismic instruments used were provided by EarthScope Consortium through the EarthScope Primary Instrument Center at New Mexico Tech. Data collected are available here through EarthScope at the link below. Detailed information on instrumentation, deployment, data collection, and data quality are provided in the attached paper.
In the spring of 2022, the WHOLESCALE team deployed 450 SmartSolo seismic instruments at the San Emidio geothermal field in Nevada. The deployment was executed in three phases: stakes were placed in the ground at locations using hand-held GPS receivers, seismographs were implanted next to the stakes, and seismographs were turned on to begin recording data in April. Three phases were necessary due to the combination of limits on the seismographs' battery life and personnel availability. This was the first project to use the low-power A-to-D mode instead of the standard high-resolution mode, which allowed a trade of a decrease in the digitizer's effective number of bits (from 21.8 to 21.5) for a 30% increase in battery life.
After approximately one month of observation, the seismographs were turned off, removed from the ground, and cleaned on May 6th (157 sites), May 7th (157 sites), and May 8th (136 sites). The data files were downloaded onto portable hard drives. The seismographs were then shipped to the PASSCAL Instrument Center where they were converted from the original (raw) SmartSolo (DLD) format to the more standard SAC at UW and also at the PASSCAL data Instrument Center. Methods and results of evaluating data quality are included in the attached paper and Word document.},
url = {https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/1610},
year = {2022},
howpublished = {Geothermal Data Repository, University of Wisconsin - Madison, https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/1610},
note = {Accessed: 2025-04-24}
}
Details
Data from Apr 5, 2022
Last updated Jun 10, 2024
Submitted May 31, 2024
Organization
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Contact
Kurt L. Feigl
Authors
Keywords
geothermal, energy, WHOLESCALE, SmartSolo, San Emidio, Nevada, DLD, raw data, EarthScope, seismograph, geophysics, seismicity, earthquake, monitoring, pumping, seismology, FDSN, EERE, PASSCAL, SAC, seismic data, waveformDOE Project Details
Project Name WHOLESCALE Project
Project Lead William Vandermeer
Project Number EE0009032
