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Winter 2023 Arcata to Eureka, California, Deployment of Nodal Seismometers

May 28, 2024

These data are from a 3-month long deployment of nodal seismometers that ran from December 22th, 2022 until March 1st, 2023 as part of a Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) experiment above the Gorda plate. The deployment was done in response to the 2022/12/20 M6.4 Ferndale earthquake. The sensors were deployed at 46 locations along Old Arcata Rd between Arcata and Eureka California (Figure 1); these locations track the approximate location of the fiber optic cable used as part of the DAS experiment. The instruments have a battery recording life of approximately one month and were swapped out in the same locations in Mid-to-late January, and late February-Early march. Exceptions are that only 29 were deployed for the first month and 3 extra stations were deployed along Samoa blvd in Arcata in the third month. Thus, there are 122 instruments that were deployed at 49 distinct locations.

Publication Year 2024
Title Winter 2023 Arcata to Eureka, California, Deployment of Nodal Seismometers
DOI 10.5066/P9CNC1BE
Authors Jeffrey J McGuire, Andrew J Barbour, Robert McPherson, Mark Hemphill-Haley, Kari Stockdale, Jay Patton, Connie Stewart
Product Type Data Release
Record Source USGS Digital Object Identifier Catalog
USGS Organization Earthquake Hazards Program