About sensor direction of the strong-motion seismograph



Each stations of KiK-net has six channels of strong-motion seismograph. The sensors of 1-3 and 4-6 channels are installed at the bottom of the well and on the surface, respectively. We installed the sensors of 1 and 4 channels in the North-South direction and the sensors of 2 and 5 channels in the East-West direction. Because it is difficult to adjust direction of the sensors correctly, there is a slight misalignment in each directions.

The directions of high sensitivity seismograph installed Hi-net and strong-motion sensmograph installed KiK-net are same. You should download the latest list of it from here and utilize it to correct the acceleration data.


*Data Modification of NGSH05 and WKYH08
We noticed that the data of channel 1 and 2 (NS- and EW- component) of two stations (NGSH05 and WKYH08) were mis-labeled. We apologize for this. We modified all records of these two stations and added the comment 'component-corrected' to the 'Memo.' field of header of the K-NET format as shown in the following example. And, of course, the records of these two stations would collect before publication after April 22, 2003.

*NGSH05
Feb 26, 2007 The sensor connection was normally mended.
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Origin Time       1999/11/10 03:19:00
Lat.              32.72
Long.             130.79
Depth. (km)       11
Mag.              4.1
Station Code      NGSH05
Station Lat.      32.9069
Station Long.     130.1431
Station Height(m) -171
Record Time       1999/11/10 03:19:30
Sampling Freq(Hz) 200Hz
Duration Time(s)  64
Dir.              2
Scale Factor      2000(gal)/8388608
Max. Acc. (gal)   .854858
Last Correction   1999/11/10 03:00:00
Memo.             component-corrected
     286      291      296      298      294      285      274      264
     259      264      273      277      275      275      278      281
     283      288      298      303      296      282      271      271
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