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NERC's Ocean-Bottom Instrumentation Facility

1 September 2022
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OBS deployment

The Facility has, funded by the NERC's URGENCY scheme, just deployed a set of six ocean-bottom seismographs around the islands of the Azores

The Dept hosts the NERC's Ocean-Bottom Instrumentation Facility which provides scientists with tools to conduct surveys of the Earth's interior under the world's oceans. The Facility has, funded by the NERC's URGENCY scheme, just deployed a set of six ocean-bottom seismographs around the islands of the Azores to record microseismicity (small earthquakes) associated with the volcanic eruptions that perpetually build the islands within the archipelago. These instruments will be recovered in January 2023. The web link that contains video of the port mobilisation and deployment activities, courtesy of Portuguese TV News, can be found here:

https://obsatsea.wordpress.com/2022/08/30/first-of-the/