First deep underground observation of rotational signals from an earthquake at teleseismic distance using a large ring laser gyroscope

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Andreino Simonelli
Jacopo Belfi
Nicolò Beverini
Giorgio Carelli
Angela Di Virgilio
Enrico Maccioni
Gaetano De Luca
Gilberto Saccorotti

Abstract

Recent advances in large ring laser gyroscopes (RLG) technologies opened the possibility to observe rotations of the ground with sensitivities up to 10−11 rad/sec over the frequency band of seismological interest (0.01-1Hz), thus opening the way to a new geophysical discipline, i.e. rotational seismology. A measure of rotations in seismology is of fundamental interest for (a) the determination of all the six degrees of freedom that characterize a rigid body’s motion, and (b) the quantitative estimate of the rotational motions contaminating ground translation measurements obtained from standard seismometers. Within this framework, this paper presents and describes GINGERino, a new large observatory-class RLG located in Gran Sasso underground laboratory (LNGS), one national laboratories of the INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare). We also report unprecedented observations and analyses of the roto-translational signals from a tele-seismic event observed in such a deep underground environment.

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Simonelli, A., Belfi, J., Beverini, N., Carelli, G., Di Virgilio, A., Maccioni, E., De Luca, G. and Saccorotti, G. (2016) “First deep underground observation of rotational signals from an earthquake at teleseismic distance using a large ring laser gyroscope”, Annals of Geophysics, 59. doi: 10.4401/ag-6970.
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