Construction Vibration Monitoring

Seismographs aren’t just for earthquakes. Vibration monitoring is performed every day in the mining and construction industries, using recorders like our Kelunji teamed with geophones, accelerometers, and microphones (for monitoring air pressure from blasts). In fact, the Kelunji EchoPro was born from a need by Orica Mining Services to have…

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For up-to-date news and comments from the SRC, make sure you follow us on Facebook and/or Twitter. Our Earthquake News page has information on significant earthquakes, but for the smaller events that you could feel we might only post information to social media. There’s also our YouTube channel where we will occasionally put…

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Installing a Seismograph

Here is a quick video showing the steps to establish a basic seismic monitoring station using an SRC seismograph system. In this example no outcropping rock was available in the area, so a metre-deep concrete pier was built (10% above ground) with a farm-gate fence to protect the hut from…

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