Urban Seismology: on the origin of earth vibrations within a city

Urban seismology has become an active research field in the recent years, both with seismological objectives, as obtaining better microzonation maps in highly populated areas, and with engineering objectives, as the monitoring of traffic or the surveying of historical buildings. We analyze here the...

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Autores: Diaz, J., Ruiz Fernández, Mario, Sánchez-Pastor, Pilar, Romero, Paula
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palabra clave:geophysics
seismology
Urban seismology
seismic station
Barcelona city
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spelling Urban Seismology: on the origin of earth vibrations within a cityDiaz, J.Ruiz Fernández, MarioSánchez-Pastor, PilarRomero, PaulageophysicsseismologyUrban seismologyseismic stationBarcelona cityUrban seismology has become an active research field in the recent years, both with seismological objectives, as obtaining better microzonation maps in highly populated areas, and with engineering objectives, as the monitoring of traffic or the surveying of historical buildings. We analyze here the seismic records obtained by a broad-band seismic station installed in the ICTJA-CSIC institute, located near the center of Barcelona city. Although this station was installed to introduce visitors to earth science during science fairs and other dissemination events, the analysis of the data has allowed to infer results of interest for the scientific community. The main results include the evidence that urban seismometers can be used as a easy-to-use, robust monitoring tool for road traffic and subway activity inside the city. Seismic signals generated by different cultural activities, including rock concerts, fireworks or football games, can be detected and discriminated from its seismic properties. Beside the interest to understand the propagation of seismic waves generated by those rather particular sources, those earth shaking records provide a powerful tool to gain visibility in the mass media and hence have the opportunity to present earth sciences to a wider audience.This work was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness Project MISTERIOS (CGL2013-48601-C2-2-R), with additional support from the Generalitat de Catalunya grant 2009SGR1595.Peer reviewedNature Publishing GroupMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (España)Generalitat de CatalunyaConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]201720172017info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/157225reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Ingléshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15499-ySíinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/1572252026-05-22T06:33:51Z
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title Urban Seismology: on the origin of earth vibrations within a city
spellingShingle Urban Seismology: on the origin of earth vibrations within a city
Diaz, J.
geophysics
seismology
Urban seismology
seismic station
Barcelona city
title_short Urban Seismology: on the origin of earth vibrations within a city
title_full Urban Seismology: on the origin of earth vibrations within a city
title_fullStr Urban Seismology: on the origin of earth vibrations within a city
title_full_unstemmed Urban Seismology: on the origin of earth vibrations within a city
title_sort Urban Seismology: on the origin of earth vibrations within a city
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Diaz, J.
Ruiz Fernández, Mario
Sánchez-Pastor, Pilar
Romero, Paula
author Diaz, J.
author_facet Diaz, J.
Ruiz Fernández, Mario
Sánchez-Pastor, Pilar
Romero, Paula
author_role author
author2 Ruiz Fernández, Mario
Sánchez-Pastor, Pilar
Romero, Paula
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
Generalitat de Catalunya
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv geophysics
seismology
Urban seismology
seismic station
Barcelona city
topic geophysics
seismology
Urban seismology
seismic station
Barcelona city
description Urban seismology has become an active research field in the recent years, both with seismological objectives, as obtaining better microzonation maps in highly populated areas, and with engineering objectives, as the monitoring of traffic or the surveying of historical buildings. We analyze here the seismic records obtained by a broad-band seismic station installed in the ICTJA-CSIC institute, located near the center of Barcelona city. Although this station was installed to introduce visitors to earth science during science fairs and other dissemination events, the analysis of the data has allowed to infer results of interest for the scientific community. The main results include the evidence that urban seismometers can be used as a easy-to-use, robust monitoring tool for road traffic and subway activity inside the city. Seismic signals generated by different cultural activities, including rock concerts, fireworks or football games, can be detected and discriminated from its seismic properties. Beside the interest to understand the propagation of seismic waves generated by those rather particular sources, those earth shaking records provide a powerful tool to gain visibility in the mass media and hence have the opportunity to present earth sciences to a wider audience.
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