ALPSS: Alpine Low-power Portable Seismic Stations

(Updated: 17-Dec-2015)

Tohoku University (JAPAN) and Victoria University of Wellington (NEW ZEALAND) have installed seismic stations by using low-power and portable seismometer in and around the Alpine fault, New Zealand.

Current member:
Tomomi Okada (Tohoku University), Ryota Takagi (ERI, U. of Tokyo), Keisuke Yoshida (NIED)
John Townend, Calum Chamberlain, Laura-May Baratin, Emily Warren-Smith, Martha Savage, Calorin Boese (Victoria University of Wellington)

Purpose:

(TBA: To understand earthquake generation process along the Alpine fault, the South Island, New Zealand)

Recent activities:

#4 (planned)
Feb./2016
Maintainance (by Takagi and co-workers)

#3
Nov/2015
DFDP-workshop at AIST, Tsukuba, Japan

#2
Sep./Oct./2015
Maintainance (by Laura-May and co-workers)

#1
10/March/2015-19/March/2015:
Installation of three stations:
(ALPSS01) : at the surface of the DFDP-1 borehole
(ALPSS02) : at the surface of the DFDP-2 borehole
(ALPSS03):  in Whataroa

#0
April/2014
Discussion when the DFDP-2 workshop at the GNS Science, New Zealand

Acknowledgements:
We acknowledge the land owners' kind help. This observation is supported by J-DESC, JAMSTEC, ERI - University of Tokyo, NIED, and IRIDeS - Tohoku University. We also thank Dr. Norio Shigematsu of AIST, Japan and Dr. Rupert Sutherland of VUW for valuable discussions.

Contact to: Okada or Townend

Links:
DFDP
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Deep-Fault-Drilling-Project-2/1474306806176703