S12B:
Seismology Contributions: Advances in Instrumentation and Installation I

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Katrin Hafner, IRIS Consortium, Washington, DC, United States and Andrew Frassetto, IRIS Consortium, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Conveners:  Victor C Tsai, Caltech-Seismological Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Carl Tape, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Andrew Frassetto, IRIS Consortium, Washington, DC, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Observations of Repeated Seafloor Tilt Events atop the Inward Steep Slope of the Japan Trench Using New High-Resolution Accelerometers
Yoshio Fukao1, Hiroko Sugioka1, Aki Ito1, Hajime Shiobara2 and Jerome M. Paros3, (1)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (2)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (3)Paroscientific, Inc. & Quartz Seismic Sensors, Inc., Redmond, WA, United States
10:35 AM
 
Posthole Sensor Performance in the USArray Transportable Array – Results from Testing and Initial Deployments in Alaska and Canada
Andrew Frassetto1, Robert W Busby1, Katrin Hafner1, Allan Sauter2 and Robert Woodward1, (1)IRIS Consortium, Washington, DC, United States, (2)IRIS/PASSCAL, Socorro, NM, United States
10:50 AM
 
Seismic Observations on Greenland Ice Sheet By a Joint USA and Japanese Glisn Team (2011-2014)
Genti Toyokuni, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Masaki Kanao, Natl Inst Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, Yoko Tono, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, Tetsuto Himeno, Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan, Seiji Tsuboi, Data Research Center for MES, Kanagawa, Japan, Dean Childs, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, PASSCAL Instrument Center, Socorro, NM, United States, Trine Dahl-Jensen, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark and Kent Randall Anderson, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA, United States
11:05 AM
 
"An Analysis of Tradeoffs Between Seismometer Performance and Convenience"
Andrew Owen Moores, Neil Spriggs, Daniel Wesley Greig and Nick J. Ackerley, Nanometrics Inc, Kanata, ON, Canada
11:20 AM
 
Evidence for slow slip events preceeding the M8, April 1rst, 2014 Pisagua Earthquake (Chile), from an underground, long base hydrostatic  tiltmeter.
Frederick Boudin1, Pascal Bernard2, Marie-France Esnoult2, Manuel Olcay3, Carlos Tassera3, El-Madani Aissaoui2, Alex Nercessian2 and Jean-Pierre Vilotte4, (1)Géosciences Montpellier, Montpellier Cedex 05, France, (2)Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France, (3)Universidad Arturo Prat Iquique, departemento de Fisica, Iquique, Chile, (4)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
11:35 AM
 
Earth Analog Seismic Deployment for InSight’s Mars seismic installation
Sharon Kedar1, Samuel C Bradford1, Robert W Clayton2, Paul Mcewan Davis3, Joan Ervin1, Taichi Kawamura4, Philippe Henri Lognonne5, Ralph D Lorenz6, David Mimoun7, Naomi Murdoch8, Trisha Roberson2, Igor Stubailo3 and David Van Buren1, (1)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Institute de Physique d Globe Paris, St Maur des Fosses,, France, (5)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (6)JHU / APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)ISAE, Toulouse, France, (8)Institut Superieur de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace, Toulouse, France
11:50 AM
 
AMBIENT VIBRATION AND EARTHQUAKE-DATA ANALYSES OF A 62-STORY BUILDING USING SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION AND SEISMIC INTERFEROMETRY
Erol Kalkan1, Jon B Fletcher2, Hasan S Ulusoy1 and Lawrence Alan Baker1, (1)Earthquake Hazards Program Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, Ca 94025, Menlo Park, CA, United States
12:05 PM
 
A self-levelling nano-g silicon seismometer 
William T Pike1, Aifric Delahunty2, Guangbin Dou2, Anisha Mukherjee2, Huafeng Liu2, Simon B Calcutt3 and Ian M Standley4, (1)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (3)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (4)Kinemetrics, Inc., Pasadena, CA, United States
 
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