# Presentation: 245938

## Caribbean Earthquake and Tsunami Monitoring Project

**Thursday Afternoon, July 21, 2005**
- 2:00 Introduction and Project Overview
- 	Dan McNamara – USGS ANSS
- 2:30 International Agreements
- 	Jean Weaver – USGS Reston
- 3:00 Station Siting and Evaluation
- 	Jack Odum – USGS ANSS
- 3:30 Station Design and Installation: Engineering Overview
- 	Bob Hutt – USGS ASL
- 4:00 Training and it's role in Operations and Maintenance
- 	Gary Gyure –ASL Honeywell
- 4:30 Data Flow to Local Institutions, the NEIC and NOAA
- 	Dan McNamara – USGS ANSS
- 5:00 Cerveza

## Project OverviewDan McNamara USGS ANSS Golden, CO

- Capabilities of the Proposed Stations
- Participants and Partners
- Timeline (finish by September 2006)
- Project Website
- Questions for site evaluation and installation
- Questions for the USGS?

## 9 Proposed Stations and Partners

- Trinidad/Tebago
- 	Seismic Research Unit of the University of the West Indies in Trinidad.
- Barbados
- 	Seismic Research Unit of the University of the West Indies in Trinidad.
- Antigua
- 	Seismic Research Unit of the University of the West Indies in Trinidad.
- Dominican Republic
- 	Instituto Sismológico Universitario Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, PRSN
- Cuba, Guatnanamo Bay
- 	USGS International Programs office, US Navy
- Jamaica
- 	Jamaican Seismic Network: University of the West Indies, Mona
- Honduras
- 	The Departamento de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras
- Panama
- 	Instituto de Geociencias,Universidad de Panama
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- 	Turks and Caicos Disaster Management, PRSN

## Slide 4

## Detection Threshold Improvement

- Mw

## Location Error Improvement

- km

## Response Time Improvement

- Minutes

## US Participants

- USGS International Programs Office, Reston, VA
- USGS Central Region GHT, ANSS Golden, CO
- USGS Central Region GHT, ASL GSN Albuquerque, NM
- USGS Western Region, Menlo Park, CA
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – NOAA

## Slide 9

## Coordinate with other Interested Organizations

- MIDAS
- GSN Standing Committee of IRIS
- Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission- IOC of UNESCO
- IOCARIBE – sub-commission for the Caribbean

## Timeline

- Phase 1: Pre-deployment Planning 		5/05-8/05
- Phase 2: Station Siting and Permitting 		5/05-02/06
- Phase 3: Procurement of Equipment 		6/05-01/06
- Phase 4: Equipment Testing and Config. 	12/05-02/06
- Phase 5: Training 					01/06-02/06
- Phase 6: Station Deployment 			12/05-09/06
- Phase 7: Data Integration at NEIC 		09/06
- Phase 8: Long Term O&M 				beyond 09/06

- May 2005

- September 2006

## USGS Website

- Project Webpage
- http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/staffweb/mcnamara/Projects/Caribbean/Caribbean.html
- Caribbean Geological Conference Information Package
- _[http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/staffweb/mcnamara/Projects/Caribbean/GeologicalConf/GeolConference.html](http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/staffweb/mcnamara/Projects/Caribbean/GeologicalConf/GeolConference.html)_

## Information Package

- Questions for site evaluation and installation
- _[List of Participants](http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/staffweb/mcnamara/Projects/Caribbean/GeologicalConf/participantsUSGSCaribNetwor.doc)_
- _[Meeting Agenda](http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/staffweb/mcnamara/Projects/Caribbean/GeologicalConf/ProgramaOral1.doc)_
- _[USGS Fact Sheet on the Caribbean Earthquake and Tsunami Warning System: DRAFT July 12, 2005](http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/staffweb/mcnamara/Projects/Caribbean/Documents/Carib_factsheet3.1.doc)_
- Caribbean Project Implementation Plan: DRAFT July 12, 2005
- J. McMillan, Methods of installing United States National Seismographic Network (USNSN) stations; a construction manual, Open-File Report, No.OF 02-0144, 23.
- TA vault design document
- Planned Caribbean Stations with Seismicity: POSTER MAP
- Planned Caribbean Stations with Seismicity and Earthquake Hazard: POSTER MAP
- List of Regional Seismic Networks in the Caribbean Region
- Station Siting/Installation Requirements and Survey

## Questions for the Session

- 1. Who are the primary partner contact?
- 	2. Level of partner expertise for O&M?
- 		people, training and timeline
- 	3. Site location options?
- 		people and timeline
- 	4. Permitting?
- 		people and timeline
- 	5. Infrastructure?
- 		tasking, local and/or USGS
- 	6. partner concerns?
- 		Questions for USGS
- 		available research and operational products
- 	7. data distribution to partners?

## Permits and Agreements (MOUs)Jean Weaver USGS Reston

- What institute?
- How do we approach agreement gov to gov?
- what ministry?
- contact info?
- Timeline?
- permits should cover, vsat dish,
- transmission of data, and long term land use

## Station Site EvaluationJack Odum USGS Golden, CO

- New or existing?
- Station Requirements
- Scouting Trips (begin by August-September 2005)
- Trip Needs - Visas, hotels, truck, tools, contacts
- Webform for Site information - does not exist yet...

## Site Evaluation

-  All stations will be evaluated on the following criteria:
- 1. Large utility vehicle (backhoe, concrete truck) accessibility.
- 2. Return visit accessibility--how easy is it to access the site in different conditions throughout the year.
- 3. Site conditions such as proximity to bedrock and drainage.
- 4. Security -
- Locks and fencing required?
- Should the site should be hidden from view of the casual observer?
- 5. Infrastructure (e.g., enclosure requirements, power).
- 6. Availability of telecommunications, and satellite view.
- 7. Availability of reliable AC power.
- 8. Local contacts and maintenance personnel.
- 9. Cultural noise characteristics.
- 10. Daily solar radiation.
- 11. Hurricane resistance.

## GSN Station Access Survey

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***TRANSPORTATION AVAILABILITY:***
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***OBSERVATIONS & NOTES:***

## Noise Tests

**http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/staffweb/mcnamara/Projects/Caribbean/staeval.html**

## Engineering OverviewBob Hutt - USGS ASL

- Instrumentation
- Vault design - need Aug. meeting participants.
- Telemetry
- Power systems

## Training, O&MGary Gyure - ASL Honeywell

## Data Integration at the NEIC

- VSAT to NEIC for automatic processing in HYDRA
- 	HYDRA is a new earthquake processing system based on earthworm
- QC analysis system for archiving at IRIS DMC

## Data Flow to Local Institutions

**Data Format Options **
- 	earthworm - internal format, offers most connectivity and products
- 		     output in SAC, SEED
- 	LISS - real-time feed in miniSEED
- 	autodrm - future support uncertain
- 	IRIS DMC - BUD offers real-time feed.

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