SSN-Mexico

Servicio Sismologico Nacional
Network Report
Managing Data for Seismic Networks
IRIS Workshop
Bogota Colombia, July 2014
Oscar Castro Artola
Jesús Antonio Pérez Santana
Servicio Sismologico Nacional
The mission of the SSN is to determine with opportunity the
seismic parameters of earthquakes that strike the Mexican
area. This information is crucial for the authorities to initiate
different mechanisms oriented to mitigate the effects of
the seismic activity in the population.
Seismotectonic Map
The Biggest Earthquakes in the MesoAmerican Trench
National Broadband Seismic Network
SSN Seismic Network
The seismic monitoring of the Mexican area is done through four networks:
- one continental network named National Broadband Seismic Network.
- one metropolitan named Mexican Valley Network deployed around Mexico City.
- two local networks: the Tacana Volcano and the Socorro Island.
SSN Seismic Station
The core for the National Broadband Seismic Network is composed with stations
equiped with Quanterra dataloggers, seismometers STS-2, and accelerometers
Episensor ES-T. For real time transmission at rural areas, the SSN uses a VSAT
station.
Telecommunications and Instrumentation at SSN
39
Sensors by Model
40
35
30
25
21
16
20
15
10
2
1
5
1
7
5
3
4
1
0
Dataloggers by Model
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
SSN Telecommunication
Network
35
24
16
10
1
1
1
2
3
1
2
2
40
2
56
60
25
14
20
5
0
Internet
RF
Satellite
Leased
Lines
Plan to Improve the Coverage of the Mexican
Seismic Network