The Seismic Array Project uses seismic broadband stations to investigate the Earth's interior.
Conducted by research groups from KAUST together with local collaborators, we aim to better understand the world we live in.
The two research groups of Prof. Martin Mai (Computational Earthquake Seismology)
and Prof. Daniel Peter (Seismic Modeling and Inversion)
focus on understanding how earthquakes occur and how the Earth's subsurface influences our daily lives.
The project is supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and part of the
Earth Science and Engineering (ErSE) Program.
We maintain a pool of portable seismic broadband stations which measure the ground shaking at different locations. These instruments are very sensitive and able to record tiny movements of the soil they are put into. We analyse these records to better understand the geology, seismicity and finally the dynamic processes inside the Earth.
The stations we employ are seismic broadband stations from Nanometrics, a Canadian company which manufactures highly robust and reliable measurement devices for seismological research and environmental research. We maintain a set of currently 35 devices, which are used at different places to measurement ground shaking.
The Seismic Array Project employs a small number of seismic stations in the field.
Deployment: June, 2016 - present
We employ currently 5 seismic stations in the Olduvai Gorge region. Olduvai George
is one of the most important paleoanthropological sites in the world;
it has proven invaluable in furthering understanding of early human evolution.
Deployment: March, 2017 - present
We employ a few stations in the Island area of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. These sites are mainly for testing our devices and different installation setups.
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