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- Title
- Calibration of PS09, PS10, and PS11 Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Strong-Motion Instruments, with Acceleration, Velocity, and Displacement Records of the Denali Fault Earthquake, 03 November 2002.
- File
- PB2006110294.pdf
- Author(s)
- Evans, J. R.; Jensen, E. G.; Sell, R.; Stephens, C. D.; Nyman, D. J.
- Source
- January 2006, 60 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- USGS/OFR-2006-1028
- Abstract
- In September, 2003, the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company (APSC) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) embarked on a joint effort to extract, test, and calibrate the accelerometers, amplifiers, and bandpass filters from the earthquake monitoring systems (EMS) at Pump Stations 09, 10, and 11 of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). These were the three closest strong-motion seismographs to the Denali fault when it ruptured in the Mw 7.9 earthquake of 03 November 2002 (22:12:41 UTC), and are shown in this document. The surface rupture is only 3.0 km from PS10 and 55.5 km from PS09 but PS11 is 124.2 km away from a small rupture splay and 126.9 km from the main trace.
- Keywords
- ; Measuring instruments; Geologic faults; Velocity; Alaska; Ground motion; Monitoring; Acceleration; Amplifiers; Seismographs; Earthquakes