- Installation of 29 short-period seismometers between Copiapo and Taltal to monitor seismic events - The deployment was between February 2023 and June 2023 - Registering continuously 250 SPS - Onshore component of research cruise SO297 with RV Sonne. Waveform data is available from the GEOFON data centre, under network code 5R.
The main aim of this project is to investigate the crustal and mantle structure beneath the Longmenshan fault zone in China, based on a very dense passive seismology profile. The Longmenshan fault zone hosted the Wenchuan earthquake of May 2008 with a magnitude (Mw) of 7.9 and the Lushan earthquake of June 2013 with a magnitude (Mw) of 6.6. It is planned to mainly use the receiver-function method, to investigate the crustal and mantle structure beneath the Longmenshan fault zone. Waveform data are available from the GEOFON data center, under network code 4O.