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Mining Publication: Installation of a Digital, Wireless, Strong-Motion Network for Monitoring Seismic Activity in a Western Colorado Coal Mining Region

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Original creation date: April 2007

Image of publication Installation of a Digital, Wireless, Strong-Motion Network for Monitoring Seismic Activity in a Western Colorado Coal Mining Region

A seismic monitoring network has recently been installed in the North Fork Valley coal mining region of western Colorado as part of a NIOSH mine safety technology transfer project with two longwall coal mine operators. Data recorded with this network will be used to characterize mining related and natural seismic activity in the vicinity of the mines and examine potential hazards due to ground shaking near critical structures such as impoundment dams, reservoirs, and steep slopes. Ten triaxial strong-motion accelerometers have been installed on the surface to form the core of a network that covers approximately 250 square kilometers (100 sq. miles) of rugged canyon-mesa terrain. Spread-spectrum radio networks are used to telemeter continuous streams of seismic waveform data to a central location where they are converted to IP data streams and ported to the Internet for processing, archiving, and analysis.

Authors: PL Swanson, C Stewart, W Koontz

Conference Paper - April 2007

NIOSHTIC2 Number: 20033308

Proceedings of the 20th Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems (SAGEEP 2007), Denver, Colorado, April 1-5, 2007. Denver, CO: Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society, 2007; :559-565


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