02 Feb 2016
Performance report of the RHUM-RUM ocean bottom seismometer network around La Réunion, western Indian Ocean
S. C. Stähler
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Dept. of Earth Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 41, 80333 Munich, Germany
Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Seestraße 15, 18119 Rostock, Germany
K. Sigloch
Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3AN, UK
Dept. of Earth Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 41, 80333 Munich, Germany
K. Hosseini
Dept. of Earth Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 41, 80333 Munich, Germany
W. C. Crawford
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UMR7154 – CNRS, Paris, France
G. Barruol
Laboratoire GéoSciences Réunion, Université de La Réunion, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UMR7154 – CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Saint Denis CEDEX 9, France
M. C. Schmidt-Aursch
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Am Alten Hafen 26, 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany
M. Tsekhmistrenko
Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3AN, UK
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Am Alten Hafen 26, 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany
J.-R. Scholz
Laboratoire GéoSciences Réunion, Université de La Réunion, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UMR7154 – CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Saint Denis CEDEX 9, France
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Am Alten Hafen 26, 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany
A. Mazzullo
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UMR7154 – CNRS, Paris, France
M. Deen
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UMR7154 – CNRS, Paris, France
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Short summary
RHUM-RUM is a German-French project to record motion of the sea-floor caused by earthquakes around La Réunion. For this, 57 autonomous ocean-bottom seismometers were installed for one year in an area of 2000 × 2000 km around the island. These 57 were of two different types (Kiel-built LOBSTER and LCPO2000 from Scripps), whose performances are reviewed here. It was found that the LCPO2000-type is better suited for low frequencies, at the cost of higher power consumption and more difficult handling.
RHUM-RUM is a German-French project to record motion of the sea-floor caused by earthquakes...
