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Network CH
Station Code SBIS
Station Description Binningen, BL
Latitude (WGS84) 47.5413
Longitude (WGS84) 7.5825
Station altitude (CH1903) 315.0
running from 1989-12-01
...until 2008-12-01
Waveform Access open
Sensor Types Accelerometer
Geological Unit Loess (Pleistocene)
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 Edge of a terrace above Rhine plain
Ground type EC8 B
Ground type SIA C
Basin Information Rhine basin
Reference Fäh Donat, Fritsche S., Poggi V. et al., "Determination of Site Information for Seismic Stations in Switzerland. Work Package 4: Pegasos Refinement Project", Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zürich, 2009
Resonance Frequency (Hz) .57
Uncertainty Factor -
Vs 30 (m/s) 378
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 01-12-1989
End Date 2008-12-01
Housing Class Building
Housing Description Basement of a masonry building (concrete slab)
sensor depth below station 0.0 m
Distance to Building (m) -

Current Instrumentation

No open epochs

Location code (none)
On date 30-03-2006 11:00:00
Off date 2008-12-01 00:00:00
Waveform Access open
Sensor model EpiSensor ES-T
Sensor manufacturer Kinemetrics
Digitizer model Taurus
Digitizer manufacturer Nanometrics
Channels HGE , HGN , HGZ
Location code (none)
On date 02-03-2005 10:55:00
Off date 2006-03-30 11:00:00
Waveform Access open
Sensor model EpiSensor ES-T
Sensor manufacturer Kinemetrics
Digitizer model Mars-88
Digitizer manufacturer Lennartz
Channels HGE , HGN , HGZ
Location code (none)
On date 01-12-1989 00:00:00
Off date 2005-03-02 10:54:59
Waveform Access open
Sensor model AC-23
Sensor manufacturer GeoSIG
Digitizer model
Digitizer manufacturer
Channels HGE , HGN , HGZ

Site Characterization

channel group
 Empirical Amplification
CH.SBIS..HG 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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