Mobile seismic stations MOBNET

MOBNET (MOBile NETwork) is a set of seismic stations installed temporarily in tectonically different regions in the frame of collaborative seismic experiments. The set has been developed step by step since 1998 and it currently consists of 80 portable units. Pairs of seismometer-data acquisition systems create each of the mobile units. About half of the seismometers are the high-frequency Lennartz Le-3D (32 pieces), the rest are tree-component broad-band seismometers – STS2 and Guralp (CMG-3T, CMG-3ESP, CMG-40T). GAIA data acquisition systems work mostly in offline regime, reporting the state-of-health for all of the stations via ‘sms’daily. Online data transmission is also possible. Previously, the stations of the pool have been involved, e.g., in the RETREAT (N. Apennines), LAPNET (N. Finland), PASSEQ (central Europe), MOSAIC, and BOHEMA (Bohemian Massif) passive seismic experiments. Currently, twenty broad-band stations are involved in the large collaborative European project AlpArray and have been involved in the AlpArray complementary passive experiments EASI (20 stations) and IVREA (10 stations). Another twenty broad-band stations are currently involved in PACASE (Pannonian-Carpathian-Alpine Seismic Experiment) with continuation in AdriaArray project in future.

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