Instrument Response Removal and the 2020 MLg 3.1 Marlboro, New Jersey, Earthquake

Author:

Burky Alexander L.1ORCID,Irving Jessica C. E.2ORCID,Simons Frederik J.1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.

2. School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Abstract

Abstract To better understand earthquakes as a hazard and to better understand the interior structure of the Earth, we often want to measure the physical displacement, velocity, or acceleration at locations on the Earth’s surface. To this end, a routine step in an observational seismology workflow is the removal of the instrument response, required to convert the digital counts recorded by a seismometer to physical displacement, velocity, or acceleration. The conceptual framework, which we briefly review for students and researchers of seismology, is that of the seismometer as a linear time-invariant system, which records a convolution of ground motion via a transfer function that gain scales and phase shifts the incoming signal. In practice, numerous software packages are widely used to undo this convolution via deconvolution of the instrument’s transfer function. Here, to allow the reader to understand this process, we start by taking a step back to fully explore the choices made during this routine step and the reasons for making them. In addition, we introduce open-source routines in Python and MATLAB as part of our rflexa package, which identically reproduce the results of the Seismic Analysis Code, a ubiquitous and trusted reference. The entire workflow is illustrated on data recorded by several instruments on Princeton University campus in Princeton, New Jersey, of the 9 September 2020 magnitude 3.1 earthquake in Marlboro, New Jersey.

Publisher

Seismological Society of America (SSA)

Subject

Geophysics

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