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PACP - Pacheco Peak, CA, USA

View of Pacheco Peak

View of Pacheco Peak

2003/06/19 15:00:00 - Present

Latitude: 37.0080
Longitude: -121.2870
Elevation: 844.00 meters

STS-2 & Episensor in PACP vault

STS-2 & Episensor in PACP vault

Location | Geology | Vault Conditions
Instrumentation | Network | Operation Notes
Noise Characteristics | Data Availability

Location:
PACP is installed at Pacheco Peak in south Santa Clara County. The site was established under the auspices of the CA Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and Santa Clara County. The mountain top site has two existing concrete radio vaults and 30 meter antenna towers. Police, fire, and state, and county communication equipment are housed there.

Support for PACP was provided by the Governor's Office of Emergency Services as part of the California Integrated Seismic Network.

Geology:
Miocene Volcanic Andesite

Vault/Borehole conditions:
The PACP vault is a surface installation, constructed on bedrock outcrops on Pacheco Peak. The pier is surrounded by concrete bricks and 4" of insulation. The entire vault is then surrounded and topped by bags of concrete mix.

Instrumentation:
SensorDataloggerStart DateEnd DateSEED ChannelsLocation
Battery VoltageQ41202003/06/19PresentLE?,UE?
Internal TemperatureQ41202003/06/19PresentUK?
Kinemetrics FBA ES-T Accel. (2 g max 10 v/g)Q41202003/06/19PresentBL?,LL?,HL?
Motorola MPX201 PressureQ41202003/06/19PresentLD?
Streckeisen STS-2 VBB Tri-Axial SeismometerQ41202003/06/19PresentBH?,HH?,VH?,UH?,UM?,LH?
YSI 44031 ThermistorQ41202003/06/19PresentLK?

Network:
BK (Berkeley Digital Seismic Network)

Operation Notes: (may not be current)
This section summarizes major changes in equipment or in instrumentation at PACP.

  • 2004/06/15: Changed BH channels from 20 Hz to 40 Hz sampling rate.
  • 2003/09/11: Seismometers relocated to new pier.
  • 2003/07/01: Changed HH channels to have causal filters.
  • 2003/06/19: Equipment installed temporarily in the Santa Clara County communications facility while the vault is prepared.

Noise Characteristics:
The figures below are cumulative plots of power spectral density (psd) determined from the broadband channels. In each figure, the vertical component psd is plotted with blue diamonds, the north component psd with red squares, and the east component psd with green circles. The results are presented in the 5 different frequency bands, and the USGS/Albuquerque low noise model is plotted as a dashed line in each. The PSD units are in dB (decibel) relative to 1 (m/s**2)**2/Hz. The current annual plot is updated weekly.

Cumulative PSD results
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
1999 PSD 2000 PSD 2001 PSD 2002 PSD 2003 PSD 2004 PSD 2005 PSD

Data Availability:
BDSN waveforms and associated metadata are available at the Northern California Earthquake Data Center (NCEDC).

Several tools provide access to SEED format data at the NCEDC, both in terms of querying the archives and allowing data requests.

Help on using these tools is available.

BDSN Overview | Map | Table



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