ICEMELT Broadband Seismic Data for Earthquake Analysis

ICEMELT LINE contains sliced SAC and SEGY triggered data from the ICEMELT seismology experiment. The data were recorded on STS-2 seismometers owned by the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. The dataset was last updated in November 1995.

Use Cases

• Analyzing earthquake waveforms from SAC file headers for event detection.
• Comparing triggered SEGY data against continuous seismic records for signal processing research.
• Studying seismic signals from the ICEMELT experiment to model subsurface properties.
• Developing algorithms for parsing earthquake information embedded in SAC file headers.

Strengths

• Data originates from the ICEMELT experiment, a recognized seismology study.
• Includes both sliced SAC data and triggered SEGY data formats for analysis.

Limitations

• Dataset is from 1995 and may be temporally stale for modern seismic studies.
• Specific row counts, column details, and sample sizes are unknown.
• The relationship between the sliced SAC data and the original continuous data is not fully detailed.

Provenance

Source

Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Collection Method

Data recorded on STS-2 seismometers and Reftek disks, later converted to SAC format with earthquake headers.

Freshness

Last updated in 1995.

Geography

ICEMELT experiment location (specific region not detailed in input).