OXMT - Ox Mountain

We operate broadband and borehole stations under the network code BK. The Berkeley Digital Seismic Network (BDSN) is a regional network of very broadband and strong motion seismic stations designed to monitor regional seismic activity as well as provide high quality data. The Berkeley borehole stations have borehole geophones or other seismic sensors and may have other geophysical instrumentation.

BARD is our GPS network for monitoring crustal deformation across the Pacific-North America plate boundary and in the San Francisco Bay Area for earthquake hazard reduction studies and rapid earthquake emergency response assessment



Station Name OXMT (OXMT)
In Operation 2003/12/20 00:10:00 - Present
Latitude
Longitude:
Elevation: 209.0775 meters
Instrumentation Borehole
GPS
Other

Location

OXMT is located on Ox Mountain, near Half Moon Bay. The site was installed under the auspices of BFI Peninsula. This site is known as SFOXM in the USGS Low Frequency Network.

Network

Mini Plate Boundary Observatory Network (BK)
Bay Area Regional Deformation Network Network (BARD)
USGS Low Frequency Network (UL)

Geology

Mesozoic granite, quartz monzonite, grandiorite, and quartz

Borehole Conditions

The MiniPBO borehole was installed on 02/06/2002. The strainmeter was installed at 662.7 ft and the seismometer package at 637.3 ft depth. This figure shows the location of equipment in the borehole.

GPS Monument Description

1.25" pipe bolted into borehole casing

Seismic Station Pictures

View from OXMT toward Moss Landing

View from OXMT toward Moss Landing

OXMT borehole, before GPS monument

OXMT borehole, before GPS monument

GPS Station Timeseries

GPS Station Pictures

OXMT

OXMT

Table of Seismic Instrumentation

SensorDataloggerSEED ChannelsLocation
GeophoneMark Products L-22 Horizontal GeophoneQ330-GFEEP?,LP?,SP?40
Mark Products L-22 Vertical GeophoneQ330-GFEEP?,LP?,SP?40
SensorDataloggerSEED ChannelsLocation
AuxiliaryAntennaCurrentQ330-GFEVE?40
ClockPhaseQ330-GFELC?,VC?40
ClockQualityQ330-GFELC?,VC?40
InputVoltageQ330-GFEVE?40
Paroscientific 8WD Digital Pressure MeterQ330-GFELD?40
Sacks 3-component Tensor StrainmeterQ330-GFEBS?,HS?,LS?40
SystemCurrentQ330-GFEVE?40
SystemTemperatureQ330-GFEVK?40
VCOValueQ330-GFEVC?40
CalibrationInputQEPLC?EP
HumidityQEPLI?EP
Pinnacle5000QEPBA?,LA?EP
PressureQEPLD?EP
Setra Systems Model 270 BarometerQEPLD?EP
TemperatureQEPLK?EP

GPS Instrumentation

ReceiverAntennaRadome-
GPSSEPTENTRIO POLARX5SEPTENTRIO SEPCHOKE_B3E6SPKE-

Waveforms and associated metadata, and GPS data, are available at the Northern California Earthquake Data Center (NCEDC).

Waveform Data



GPS Data

Noise Analysis

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GPS Data Quality


Completeness

Data completeness is defined both as "Completeness of observations" and "Cycle slips per observation". "Completeness of Obs." is the number of epochs in the final RINEX file normalized to the expected number. This percentage will go down if time is missing from the RINEX file. "Cycle slips per Obs." is the total number of detected cycle slip normalized to the total number of observations in the RINEX file. This number will increase as the receiver loses lock on satellites more frequently.

Previous Year
OXMT completeness last year
Lifetime
OXMT completeness lifetime

Multipath

The effects of multipath on the data are estimated by parameters for L1 and L2 (MP1 and MP2 respectively); see Estey and Meertens (GPS Solutions, 1999) for derivation. The daily value is the RMS of MP1 and MP2 throughout the day and for all satellites. Higher values indicate a greater prevalence and/or strength of multipathing, i.e. objects on the ground are providing multiple reflection pathways from the satellite to antenna.

Previous Year
OXMT multipath last year
Lifetime
OXMT multipath lifetime

Signal-to-Noise Ratio

The Signal-to-Noise ratios are the mean values above the QC elevation mask for L1 and L2 respectively.

Previous Year
ORVB SNR last year
Lifetime
ORVB SNR lifetime