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Geophysicist Matt Fouch is shown working with a seismic station in northern Nevada.
Geophysicist Matt Fouch is shown working with a digital broadband seismometer installed in northern Nevada. This seismic station is part of a 100-plus station seismic array deployed as one component of an NSF-funded multidisciplinary geological and geophysical project to understand the tectonomagmatic evolution of the High Lava Plains and surrounding regions in the northwestern United States. The seismometer (ground motion sensor) is in a plastic drum beneath the pile of dirt in the foreground; the seismograph (data recorder) and power system is in the box in front of Fouch; and there is a solar panel (for power) and a GPS receiver (for high-accuracy timing) behind him. The system is contained within a barbed-wire fence to protect it from cattle which occasionally graze in the region.
Credit: Matt Fouch, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University
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