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Network CH
Station Code SZWD
Station Description Zweisimmen, Dorf, BE
Latitude (WGS84) 46.5528
Longitude (WGS84) 7.3706
Station altitude (CH1903) 1011.0
running from 1993-03-12
...until 2017-07-01
Waveform Access open
Sensor Types Accelerometer
Geological Unit Limestone (Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous)
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 small alpine valley
Ground type EC8
Ground type SIA
Basin Information not in a sedimentary basin with possible 2D/3D effects
Reference
Resonance Frequency (Hz) 4.46
Uncertainty Factor -
Vs 30 (m/s) -
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 12-03-1993
End Date 2017-07-01
Housing Class Building
Housing Description Ground floor of a transformer house (concrete slab)
sensor depth below station 0.0 m
Distance to Building (m) -

Current Instrumentation

No open epochs

Location code (none)
On date 12-03-1993 00:00:00
Off date 2017-07-01 08:11:00
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.SZWD..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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