Station Metadata
Station

MTB02 – Soap Creek, near Corvallis Oregon. Provisional MT Backbone Station

Location (lat, lon, elev)
N44.67583 W123.29250 Z=202m
Type
USArray Backbone (Provisional)
Operating status
Occuppied temporarily during May-June 2006 to evaluate noise. Pending conclusion of telephone company negotiations, may relocate to field less than 1 km away and install permanently.
Operating agency
Oregon State University
Local contacts
Adam Schultz
Local telephone company
QWEST
Address
Soap Creek Ranch, Soap Creek Rd., Corvallis OR
Other

 

Below - view of seismic TA H03A - 80 m from provisional MT Backbone Station MTB02.

Below - tenching electric dipole lines at Provisional MTB02 (Site SPC02)

Pb-PbCl2/Kaolin/KCl electrode in salt-saturated kaolin filled bucket inside electrode hole

Below - Dean Livelybrooks and Phil Taylor completing wiring of NIMS DAQ at site SPC02 (Provisional MTB02)