OBS C, Short-period ocean bottom seismometer in the Lava Lake

PI: Mathilde Cannat, CNRS, IPGP, France

Parameters

Near real time

Delayed time

  • Number of memory block used
  • Number of seisms since deployment
  • Number of dumps since deployment
  • Seism dates
  • Seism level
  • Start date of last seism
  • End date of last seism
  • Date of last alarm acknowledge
  • X horizontal energy raw data from geophone  (counts*)
  • Y horizontal energy raw data from geophone (counts*)
  • Vertical energy raw data from geophone (counts*)

(* 1 counts = 31.3 ms)

Location

Vent field

Lucky Strike

Site

Lava Lake

Node

SeaMoN West

Coordinates

37.29125 °N  and  32.27974 °W

Depth

1695 m

Comment from PI: Short-period ocean bottom seismometer storing continuous 3C geophone (4.5h corner) and hydrophone (30s corner) onboard and communicating event information in near real-time with the SeaMoN-West node.

Data management

Partial

Near real time data transmission

Partial

Data storage in the Communication and storage unit

Full

Data storage in the instrument

Sensor metadata

Type: Short Period Bottom Seismometer

2015-16

2014-15

2013-14

2012-13

2011-12

2010-11

Model

SPOBS

SPOBS

SPOBS

SPOBS

SPOBS

SPOBS

Provider

IPGP

IPGP

IPGP

IPGP

IPGP

IPGP

Serial number

Station 2

Station 1

Station 2

Station 1

Station 2

Station 1

Operating parameters

Calibration

Sampling period

62.5 Hz