Caribbean Earthquake and Tsunami Monitoring Project

Thursday Afternoon, July 21, 2005

2:00 Introduction and Project OverviewDan McNamara – USGS ANSS

2:30 International AgreementsJean 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 NOAADan McNamara – USGS ANSS

5:00 Cerveza

Project OverviewDan 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 RepublicInstituto Sismológico Universitario Universidad Autónoma de Santo

Domingo, PRSN Cuba, Guatnanamo Bay

USGS International Programs office, US NavyJamaica

Jamaican Seismic Network: University of the West Indies, MonaHonduras

The Departamento de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de HondurasPanama

Instituto de Geociencias,Universidad de PanamaTurks and Caicos Islands

Turks and Caicos Disaster Management, PRSN

Detection Threshold Improvement

Mw

Location Error Improvement

km

Minutes

Response Time Improvement

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

Coordinate with other Interested Organizations

MIDAS

GSN Standing Committee of IRIS

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission- IOC of UNESCOIOCARIBE – sub-commission for the Caribbean

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

Information Package

Questions for site evaluation and installation

List of Participants

Meeting Agenda

USGS Fact Sheet on the Caribbean Earthquake and Tsunami Warning System: DRAFT July 12, 2005

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 Session1. 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 USGSavailable 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 EvaluationJack 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

HOTELS:

RESTAURANTS:

WHERE TO GET BEST CURRENCY CONVERSION RATES:

LOCAL MEDICAL FACILITIES, HOSPITALS:

TRANSPORTATION AVAILABILITY:

FLIGHT INFORMATION:

SUPPLIES / HARDWARE STORE INFORMATION:

OBSERVATIONS & NOTES:

Noise Tests

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

Engineering OverviewBob Hutt - USGS ASL

Instrumentation

Vault design - need Aug. meeting participants.

Telemetry

Power systems

Training, O&MGary 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.