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Los Alamos Seismic Network

Introduction - From the first data recorded in the fall of 1973 to now, the Los Alamos Seismograph Network (LASN) has operated for almost 30 years. During that time LASN data have been used to locate more than 2,500 earthquakes in north-central New Mexico.

Los Alamos Seismic Network's (LASN's) Seismic Stations - The plot (image right - click to view larger image) shows topography of north-central New Mexico. The Jemez Mountains are in the middle, and within them, the Valles Caldera is the circular feature. The Sangre de Cristo Mountains are at the right. Other features are: LASN stations (blue triangles), faults (black lines), rivers (blue lines), major roads (green lines), and selected towns (green).

LASN History

LASN Recent Seismicity

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New Mexico Seismology

The Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory is the U.S. Geological Survey's instrument test and development center, and currently is operating a broad-band shallow borehole triaxial seismometer package as station ANMO.

The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology ("New Mexico Tech") in Socorro operates networks of short-period seismographs in the Socorro area and in south-east New Mexico, near the DOE-WIPP site.

Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers are collaborating with the New Mexico/Princeton Earth Physics Program (NMPEPP) to install additional seismographs in secondary schools and community colleges in New Mexico.