Development of a Mercury Tiltmeter for Seismic Recording

Abstract

A seismic tiltmeter has been designed in a joint effort between the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Division of MIT and the MIT Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. A pair of ninety-foot mercury pendulums were constructed and installed in a low noise site near Eilat, Israel.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0726521

Entities

People

  • Dudley Shepard
  • Frank Press
  • Henry Trantham Jr.
  • M. Nafi Toksöz
  • Sheldon W. Buck

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Capacitance
  • Capacitance Bridges
  • Construction
  • Crystal Oscillators
  • Current Amplifiers
  • Electronics
  • Filters
  • Frequency Response
  • Lc Circuits
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Drawing
  • Planetary Sciences
  • Resonant Circuits
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Surface Waves
  • Teamwork

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.