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 - 0 0 CUST 1997220 1997242 45.3076 -106.2837 1.295 - ss - 0 0 KRET 1996193 1996237 44.5887 -105.8119 1.375 - ss - 0 0 LBOH 1996193 1996237 44.4416 -102.9534 0.855 - ss - 0 0 LBOH 1997220 1997242 44.4416 -102.9534 0.855 - ss - 0 0 MNTA 1997220 1997242 43.1183 -107.6549 1.73 - ss - 0 0 MNTA 1996193 1996237 43.1183 -107.6549 1.73 - ss - 0 0 SHNR 1996193 1996237 42.0107 -104.242 1.35 - ss - 0 0 SHNR 1997220 1997242 42.0107 -104.242 1.35 - ss - 0 0
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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