Black Thunder Mine, Wyoming Portable Deployment
Summary
- Network Code: YB
- Experiment duration: 1996-07 to 1997-08
- Number of events: 289
- Prinicpal investigators: Michael Hedlin, Adam Edelman, Frank Vernon
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Introduction
During the summer of 1996, five broadband stations were installed to record mining activity in the Powder River Basin in eastern Wyoming. Collaborators at Los Alamos National Lab conducted ground truth experiments at the Black Thunder Coal Mine in conjunction with the deployment.
Equipment consisted of Streckeisen STS-2 seismometers and 24-bit Reftek data loggers recording locally to 2Gb hard disks. At one station, a 3-element infrasound array was deployed.
Station List
| sta | ondate | offdate | lat | lon | elev | staname | statype | refsta | dnorth | deast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CUST | 1996193 | 1996237 | 45.3076 | -106.2837 | 1.295 | – | ss | – | – | – |
| CUST | 1997220 | 1997242 | 45.3076 | -106.2837 | 1.295 | – | ss | – | – | – |
| KRET | 1996193 | 1996237 | 44.5887 | -105.8119 | 1.375 | – | ss | – | – | – |
| LBOH | 1996193 | 1996237 | 44.4416 | -102.9534 | 0.855 | – | ss | – | – | – |
| LBOH | 1997220 | 1997242 | 44.4416 | -102.9534 | 0.855 | – | ss | – | – | – |
| MNTA | 1997220 | 1997242 | 43.1183 | -107.6549 | 1.73 | – | ss | – | – | – |
| MNTA | 1996193 | 1996237 | 43.1183 | -107.6549 | 1.73 | – | ss | – | – | – |
| SHNR | 1996193 | 1996237 | 42.0107 | -104.242 | 1.35 | – | ss | – | – | – |
| SHNR | 1997220 | 1997242 | 42.0107 | -104.242 | 1.35 | – | ss | – | – | – |
Total: 9
Channel List
| sta | chan | ondate | chanid | offdate | ctype | edepth | hang | vang | descrip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CUST | BDF | 1996193 | 2139 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| CUST | HHE | 1996193 | 2114 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 90 | 90 | – |
| CUST | HHE | 1997220 | 2129 | 1997242 | n | -0 | 90 | 90 | – |
| CUST | HHN | 1996193 | 2113 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 0 | 90 | – |
| CUST | HHN | 1997220 | 2128 | 1997242 | n | -0 | 0 | 90 | – |
| CUST | HHZ | 1996193 | 2112 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| CUST | HHZ | 1997220 | 2127 | 1997242 | n | -0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| KRET | HHE | 1996193 | 2117 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 90 | 90 | – |
| KRET | HHN | 1996193 | 2116 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 0 | 90 | – |
| KRET | HHZ | 1996193 | 2115 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| LBOH | HHE | 1996193 | 2120 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 90 | 90 | – |
| LBOH | HHE | 1997220 | 2132 | 1997242 | n | -0 | 90 | 90 | – |
| LBOH | HHN | 1996193 | 2119 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 0 | 90 | – |
| LBOH | HHN | 1997220 | 2131 | 1997242 | n | -0 | 0 | 90 | – |
| LBOH | HHZ | 1996193 | 2118 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| LBOH | HHZ | 1997220 | 2130 | 1997242 | n | -0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| MNTA | BDF | 1996193 | 2140 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| MNTA | BDF4 | 1996193 | 2142 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| MNTA | BDF5 | 1996193 | 2143 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| MNTA | BDF6 | 1996193 | 2144 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| MNTA | HHE | 1996193 | 2123 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 90 | 90 | – |
| MNTA | HHE | 1997220 | 2135 | 1997242 | n | -0 | 90 | 90 | – |
| MNTA | HHN | 1996193 | 2122 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 0 | 90 | – |
| MNTA | HHN | 1997220 | 2134 | 1997242 | n | -0 | 0 | 90 | – |
| MNTA | HHZ | 1997220 | 2133 | 1997242 | n | -0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| MNTA | HHZ | 1996193 | 2121 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| SHNR | BDF | 1996193 | 2141 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| SHNR | HHE | 1997220 | 2138 | 1997242 | n | -0 | 90 | 90 | – |
| SHNR | HHE | 1996193 | 2126 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 90 | 90 | – |
| SHNR | HHN | 1997220 | 2137 | 1997242 | n | -0 | 0 | 90 | – |
| SHNR | HHN | 1996193 | 2125 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 0 | 90 | – |
| SHNR | HHZ | 1996193 | 2124 | 1996237 | n | -0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| SHNR | HHZ | 1997220 | 2136 | 1997242 | n | -0 | 0 | 0 | – |
Total: 33
Selected References
- Goforth, T.T. and Zhou, R., 2006, Effects of source and travel path on near-regional seismograms produced by delay-fired mining explosions, Submitted to Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., in review
- Zhou, R., Stump, B.W. and Hayward, C., 2006, Ms:mb discrimination study of mining explosions in Wyoming, USA and in Qianan, China, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., To appear on October issue 2006
- Zhou, R. and Stump, B.W., 2004, Rayleigh waves generated by mining explosions and upper crustal structure around the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 94(4), 1410-1429
- Hedlin, M.A.H., B.W. Stump, D.C. Pearson and X. Yang, 2002, Identification of mining blasts at mid- to far- regional distances using low frequency seismic signals, Pure Appl. Geophys 159 (4), 831-864
- Stump, B.W., Hedlin, M.A.H., Pearson, D.C., and Hsu, V., 2002, Characterization of Mining Explosions at Regional Distances, Reviews of Geophysics, 40(4), 1011, doi:10.1029/1998RG000048, 2002
- Hedlin, M. A. H., F. L. Vernon, J.-B. Minster, J. A. Orcutt, 1996, Experiments in Regional Monitoring of Small Seismo/Acoustic Events, Proceedings - 18 Annual Seismic Research Symposium. 18, 515-523
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