| Title | The Yellowknife Seismological Array |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
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| Author | Manchee, E B; Somers, H |
| Source | Publications of the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa vol. 32, no. 2, 1966, 16 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/8497  Open Access |
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| Year | 1966 |
| Publisher | Canada Department of Mines and Technical Surveys |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in Publications of the
Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, volume XXXII |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Northwest Territories |
| NTS | 85J/SE |
| Area | Yellowknife |
| Subjects | geophysics; array seismology; earthquakes; nuclear explosions, undergrd; seismic interpretations; Detection; Data processing; Nuclear weapons |
| Illustrations | location maps; schematic diagrams; graphs; seismograms |
| Released | 1966 01 01; 2018 10 09 |
| Abstract | The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, in cooperation with the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys of Canada, has established a large seismological array at Yellowknife, Northwest
Territories. The purpose of the array is to investigate the possibility that teleseismic detection and identification of underground nuclear tests anywhere in the world may be possible using a relatively small number of similar stations. The
Yellowknife Array is a research and development facility, not an operational monitoring station.
Nineteen evenly spaced seismometer vaults are arranged in an asymmetrical cross, each arm of the cross being 22.5 km in length. The output of the
single vertical Willmore Mark II seismometer in each vault is recorded on a separate track on magnetic tape. The large size of the array makes azimuth searching and velocity filtering desirable and necessary in the processing of the data. The
Department of Mines and Technical Surveys is in the process of acquiring digital computing facilities which will allow the magnetic tapes to be searched for all events at twice real time speeds. In addition to the identification problem, many routine
seismological problems may also be investigated by use of this new and powerful tool. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 8497 |
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