Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory
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USGS Publications - Journal Publications - Technical Notes & Documentation
USGS Open-File Report & Circular Publications
- FS 2011-3065: Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory--50 years of global seismology
Hutt, C. R.; Peterson, J.; Gee, L.; Derr, J.; Ringler, A.; and Wilson, D. - FS 2011-3021: The Global Seismographic Network
Gee, L. S.; and Leith, W. S. - FS 99-176: Seismograms live from around the world
Woodward, R. L.; Shedlock K. M.; and Bolton, H. F. - OFR 2009-1295: Guidelines for Standardized Testing of Broadband Seismometers and Accelerometers
Hutt, C. R., Evans, J. R., Followill, F., Nigbor, R. L., and Wielandt, E. - OFR 2009-1055: Proceedings of the guidelines for seismometer testing workshop, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 9–10 May 2005 (“GST2”)
Hutt, C.R., Nigbor, R.L., and Evans, J.R., eds. - OFR 2009-1013: U. S. Geological Survey Global Seismographic Network Plan 2006-2010.
Leith, W. S., Gee, L. S., and Hutt, C. R. - OFR 2008-1311: A Brief Test of the Tokyo Sokushin VSE-355G3 Strong Motion Velocity Seismometer
Hutt, C. R., Evans, J. R., and Yokoi, I. - OFR 2008-1262: Working Group on Instrumentation, Siting, Installation, and Site Metadata of the Advanced National Seismic System Technical Integration Committee, Instrumentation Guidelines for the Advanced National Seismic System
- OFR 07-1145: Rotational Seismology Workshop of February 2006
Evans, John R.et al. - OFR 06-1369: C-language software for computing strong ground motion metrics and seismograph self noise
Evans, J.R., R.L. Nigbor, and C.R. Hutt - OFR 2005-1437: An assessment of the high-gain Streckeisen STS-2 seismometer four routine earthquake monitoring in the United States.
McNamara, D. E., Buland, R. P., and Benz, H. M - OFR 2005-1077: An assessment of seismic noise levels for the Advanced National Seismic System backbone network and selected regional broadband stations.
McNamara, D. E., Buland, R. P., Benz, H. M., and Leith, W. S. - OFR 02-0183: Experiments in Seismometer Azimuth Determination by Comparing the Sensor Signal Outputs with the Signal Output of an Oriented Sensor
Holcomb, L. Gary - OFR-02-0144: Methods of installing United States National Seismographic Network (USNSN) stations a construction manual.
McMillan, J. R. - OFR 98-362: Experimental Investigations Regarding the Use of Sand as an Inhibitor of Air Convection in Deep Seismic Boreholes
Holcomb, L. Gary, Leo Sandoval, and Bob Hutt (3.6 MB PDF) - OFR 93-322: Observations and Modeling of Seismic Background Noise
Peterson, Jon (5.2 MB PDF) - OFR 92-302: An Evaluation of Installation Methods For STS-1 Seismometers
Holcomb, L. Gary and Charles R. Hutt (1.8 MB PDF) - OFR 91-282: Test and evaluation of the Guralp Systems CMG-3S broadband borehole deployable seismometer system
Holcomb, Larry Claude; Hutt,Charles R. - OFR 90-406: A Numerical Study of Some Potential Sources of Error in Side-by-Side Seismometer Evaluation
Holcomb, L. Gary (2.0 MB PDF) - OFR 89-471: IRIS/USGS Plans for Upgrading The Global Seismograph Network
Peterson, Jon and Charles R. Hutt (3.5 MB PDF) - OFR 89-214: A Direct Method for Calculating Instrument Noise Levels in Side-by-Side Seismometer Evaluations
Holcomb, L. Gary (11.8 MB PDF) - OFR 87-158: A C Language Implementation of the SRO (Murdock) Detector/Analyzer
Murdock, James N. and Scott E. Halbert (5.5 MB PDF) - OFR 85-288: Description and Preliminary Testing of the CDSN Seismic Sensor Systems
Peterson, Jon and Edwin E. Tilgner (1.1 MB PDF) - OFR 83-785: A New Event Detector Designed for the Seismic Research Observatories
Murdock, James N. and Charles R. Hutt (1.9 MB PDF) - OFR 82-1087: Test and Calibration of the Digital World-Wide Standardized Seismograph
Peterson, Jon, Charles R. Hutt (5Mb PDF) - OFR 82-703: Design Concepts for a Global Telemetered Seismograph Network
Peterson, Jon, Nocholas A. Orsini (<1 MB PDF) - OFR 82-702: A Note On Transients in the SRO and ASRO Long-Period Data
Peterson, Jon (<1 MB PDF) - OFR 82-292: Preliminary Study of Methods for Upgrading USGS Antarctic Seismological Capabilities
Holcomb, L. Gary (2.1 MB PDF) - OFR 81-1046: Preliminary Design Study for a National Digital Seismic Network
Peterson, Jon, and Charles R. Hutt (1.4MB PDF) - OFR 80-2014: Time-term solutions and corresponding data for the crustal structure of north-central New Mexico
Murdock, James N., Lawrence H. Jaksha - OFR 80-992: Preliminary Observation of Noise at the SRO and ASRO Stations
Peterson, Jon (1.0MB PDF) - OFR 80-187: Test and Calibration of the Seismic Research Observatory
Peterson, Jon, Bob Hutt, and L. Gary Holcomb (1.9MB PDF) - OFR 75-373: Borehole evaluation of the Teledyne Geotech 36000 seismometer system at Albuquerque, New Mexico, February-June 1974
Holcomb, Gary L. - OFR 75-370: High gain, long-period seismograph station installation report: Zongo Valley, Bolivia
Hutt, Charles R. - OFR 75-369: High gain, long-period seismograph station installation report: Kipapa, Hawaii
Hutt, Charles R. - OFR 75-100: High gain, long-period seismograph station installation report: Matsushiro, Japan
Hutt, Charles, R. - CIR 791: Seismograph station codes and characteristics
Poppe, Barbara B., Naab, Debbie A.; Derr, John, S., 1978.
Journal Publications
- A Comparison of Seismic Instrument Noise Coherence Analysis Techniques
A. T. Ringler, C. R. Hutt, J. R. Evans, and L. D. Sandoval, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 101: 558 - 567, 2011 - Seismically observed seiching in the Panama Canal
D. E. McNamara, A. T. Ringler, C. R. Hutt, and L. S. Gee, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 116, B04312, 12 PP., 2011, doi:10.1029/2010JB007930 - Some Possible Causes of and Corrections for STS-1 Response Changes in the Global Seismographic Network
C. R. Hutt and A. T. Ringler, Seismological Research Letters, 82, 560-571, 2011 - Global trends in extremal microseism intensity
R. C. Aster, D. E. McNamara, and P. D. Bromirski, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L14303, doi:10.1029/2010GL043472, 2010 - Self-Noise Models of Seismic Instruments
A. T. Ringler and C. R. Hutt, Seismological Research Letters 81: 972-983, 2010. - Temporal Variations in Global Seismic Station Ambient Noise Power Levels
A. T. Ringler, L. S. Gee, C. R. Hutt, and D. E. McNamara, Seismological Research Letters, 81: 605 - 613, 2010. - Method for Calculating Self-Noise Spectra and Operating Ranges for Seismographic Inertial Sensors and Recorders
J. R. Evans, F. Followill, C. R. Hutt, R. P. Kromer, R. L. Nigbor, A. T. Ringler, J. M. Steim, and E. Wielandt, Seismological Research Letters, 81: 640 - 646, 2010. - A Method to Establish Seismic Noise Baselines for Automated Station Assessment,
D. E. McNamara, C. R. Hutt, L. S. Gee, H. M. Benz, and R. P. Buland, Seismological Research Letters, 80: 628 - 637, 2009. - Performance Review of the Global Seismographic Network for the Sumatra-Andaman Magathrust Earthquake,
J. Park, R. Butler, K. Anderson, J. Berger, P. Davis, H. Benz, C. R. Hutt, C. S. McCreery, T. Ahern, G. Ekstrom, and R. Aster, Seismological Research Letters, 76: 331-343, 2005. - Shear-wave velocity structure in North America from large-scale waveform inversions of surface waves
Alsina et al., J. Geophys. Res., 101, 15969-15986, 1996.
This is a summary of a paper, with downloadable color figures. - Global Digital Networks--Current Status and Future Directions
Engdahl, E.R., J. Peterson, N.A. Orsini, BSSA, 72, No. 6, pp S243-S259, December 1982. (2.4MB PDF) - Seismic Research Observatories: Upgrading the Worldwide Seismic Data Network
Jon Peterson, Nicholas A. Orsini, EOS Vol. 57, No. 8, August 1976 (1.1MB PDF)
Technical Notes & Documentation
- A Joint Report By the Institute of Geophysics State Seismological Bureau and the Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey, October, 1987 Beijing, China (4.7MN PDF)
- Instrumentation Guidelines for the Advanced National Seismic System (OF 2008-1262)
- Boreholes, Specifications for Drilling Seismic (<1MB PDF)
- Controlling Tilt Noise in Boreholes with Sand (1.7Mb PDF)
Gary Holcomb, Leo Sandoval, Bob Hutt, USGS Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory - Horizontal LP Noise at GTSN Stations, Reduction Using Sand, Memo April 14, 1998
Bob Hutt (4.0M PDF)
- Live Internet Seismic Server Abstract
Presented at the 1998 USGS National Computer Technology Meeting. - Quality Control Practices at the ASL Data Collection Center
- Quanterra Users Group meeting Presentations (November 13-14, 1997) (3.5MB PDF)
Note that page 58 of this document is shown in black and white, while the original is in color. Due to the size of the color version (4.9 Mb) of page 58, we have provided a separate PDF document showing the color version of page 58. - Reducing Horizontal Long Period Noise in Boreholes with Sand (1MB PDF)
Describes how long period background noise on seismometers installed in boreholes is reduced by installing the instruments in sand.
