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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Subject: Re: Seismic Sensors...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.171355.25492@unocal.com>
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- References: <1847@raven.ukc.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:13:55 GMT
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- In article <1847@raven.ukc.ac.uk> jpc@ukc.ac.uk (J.P.Crossley) writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- > I wonder if any people out there could help me with a problem.
- >I have a final year electronics degree project to do which is a
- >digital seismometer. However, I have had some difficulty in getting
- >information on current type of sensors that are used and detail of their
- >construction. Bearing in mind that I have to make the sensor, could any
- >one give me useful hints on the type to construct (e.g. Horizontal or
- >vertical?). From what I gather, a horizontal component sensor would be much
- >easier to construct using the 'garden gate' type pendulum in order to achieve
- >the required resonant frequency - which is quite low (approx. 1/5s - is this
- >about right for my uses?)
-
- Vertical for the first component.
-
- Different people look at different frequencies from .0001 to 10000 Hertz
- to see different things.
-
- Large earthquake earth "bell ringing": .0001 to .001 Hertz
- Far quakes: .001 to 1 Hertz
- Near quakes: .01 to 10 Hertz
- Surface petroleum exploration 5 to 250 Hertz
- Well petroleum exploration 5 to 5000 Hertz
-
- Since the speed of sound in rocks ranges from 2 to 8 km per second,
- depending on depth and wave type,
- you see different scale size features at the different frequency ranges.
-
- You probably want either the quakes or surface petroleum exploration.
-