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Network CH
Station Code SVIT
Station Description Visp, VS
Latitude (WGS84) 46.28967
Longitude (WGS84) 7.884962
Station altitude (CH1903) 652.0
running from 2010-06-05
...until now
Waveform Access open
Sensor Types Accelerometer
Geological Unit Alluvial fan
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 Slope (alluvial fan) at the edge of the Rhone valley
Ground type EC8 E
Ground type SIA E
Basin Information not in a sedimentary basin with possible 2D/3D effects
Reference Michel Clotaire, Burjanek J., "Array VIS9", Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zürich, 2010
Resonance Frequency (Hz) 9.36
Uncertainty Factor -
Vs 30 (m/s) 715
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Sensor locations

Location Code (none)
Opening Date 05-06-2010
End Date -
Housing Class Urban free field
Housing Description SED small vault
sensor depth below station 0.5 m
Distance to Building (m) -

Current Instrumentation

Location code (none)
On date 05-06-2010 00:00:00
Off date -
Sensor model EpiSensor ES-T
Sensor manufacturer Kinemetrics
Digitizer model Taurus
Digitizer manufacturer Nanometrics
Channels HGE , HGN , HGZ
Stream Noise (last week) HGE , HGN , HGZ

Site Characterization

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Empirical Amplification
CH.SVIT..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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