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Network CH
Station Code ROTHE
Station Description Rothenfluh, BL
Latitude (WGS84) 47.47612
Longitude (WGS84) 7.92093
Station altitude (CH1903) 681.0
running from 2013-01-25
...until now
Waveform Access open
Sensor Types Velocimeter
Geological Unit Limestone and marls of Bajocian age (Hauptrogenstein) below a thin layer of sediments
Site Morphology Class T1
T1: flat; T2: slope; T3: ridge and T4: steep ridge;
following Pessina and Fiorini (2014) A GIS procedure for fast topographic characterization of seismic recording stations, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 63, p248-258
Site Morphology Description Top of a hill
Ground type EC8 A
Ground type SIA A
Basin Information not in a sedimentary basin with possible 2D/3D effects
Reference Poggi Valerio, Hobiger M., Fäh D., "Rothenfluh, Switzerland (ROTHE) Report on site characterization", Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zürich, 2014
Resonance Frequency (Hz) .87
Uncertainty Factor -
Vs 30 (m/s) 954
Location Map


Federal Office of Topograpy: National Map 1:25‘000
Topography Map


Federal Office of Topograpy: DHM25: Digital Height Model 1:25000
Geology Map

Federal Office of Topograpy: Geological map of Switzerland 1:500‘000

Sensor locations

Location Code (none)
Opening Date 25-01-2013
End Date -
Housing Class Free field
Housing Description SED big pot in forest, in soil.
sensor depth below station 1.0 m
Distance to Building (m) -

Current Instrumentation

Location code (none)
On date 25-01-2013 00:00:00
Off date -
Sensor model Trillium Compact 120s
Sensor manufacturer Nanometrics
Digitizer model Taurus
Digitizer manufacturer Nanometrics
Channels HHE , HHN , HHZ
Stream Noise (last week) HHE , HHN , HHZ

Site Characterization

channel group
 Empirical Amplification
CH.ROTHE..HH not available

Obtained from spectral modeling of small earthquakes with constant update.

  • Top: Fourier amplification with elastic (dashed line) and anelastic (solid line) amplification functions;
  • Centre: 5% damped response spectra amplification (anelastic);
  • Bottom: Number of recordings used.

See Edwards et al. (2013), Determination of Site Amplification from Regional Seismicity: Application to the Swiss National Seismic Networks. Seismological Research Letters, 84(4), 611–621.

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