Station Overview

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Network CH
Station Code SFRU
Station Description Fribourg, University, FR
Latitude (WGS84) 46.79133
Longitude (WGS84) 7.157864
Station altitude (CH1903) 639.0
running from 2016-12-13
...until now
Waveform Access open
Sensor Types Accelerometer
Geological Unit Clastic sedimentary rocks (porous sandstones)
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 Glacial geomoprhology: shaped by the ice age glaciation (moraine, terminal moraine, current glacier)
Ground type EC8 B
Ground type SIA B
Basin Information On a valley bottom basin
Reference Michel Clotaire, Bergamo P., Lontsi A., Hobiger M. & Fäh D., "SITE CHARACTERIZATION REPORT SFRU: Fribourg (FR) - Université", Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zürich, 2017
Resonance Frequency (Hz) .82
Uncertainty Factor -
Vs 30 (m/s) 534
Location Map


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Topography Map


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Geology Map

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Sensor locations

Location Code (none)
Opening Date 13-12-2016
End Date -
Housing Class Urban free-field
Housing Description big pot, concrete vault, sensor bolted to the Foundation
sensor depth below station 1.0 m
Distance to Building (m) -

Current Instrumentation

Location code (none)
On date 27-02-2017 15:44:00
Off date -
Sensor model EpiSensor ES-T
Sensor manufacturer Kinemetrics
Digitizer model Centaur
Digitizer manufacturer Nanometrics
Channels HGE , HGN , HGZ
Stream Noise (last week) HGE , HGN , HGZ
Location code (none)
On date 13-12-2016 11:00:00
Off date 2017-02-27 15:44:00
Waveform Access open
Sensor model EpiSensor ES-T
Sensor manufacturer Kinemetrics
Digitizer model Centaur
Digitizer manufacturer Nanometrics
Channels HGE , HGN , HGZ

Site Characterization

channel group
Empirical Amplification
CH.SFRU..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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