Photograph of the entrance to the Kristyna mine, in which the sensors for station KHC still reside (left) and the former seismic station building that has been converted to a Museum of Seismometry (right). Credit: P. Kolář

Photograph of the entrance to the Kristyna mine, in which the sensors for station KHC still reside (left) and the former seismic station building that has been converted to a Museum of Seismometry (right). Credit: P. Kolář

A brief history of the very first broadband seismic station


By Alka Tripathy-Lang

April 8, 2021

The advent of a seismometer that could measure a broad range of frequencies changed seismology forever. This is the origin story of that instrument.

Head over to IRIS for the full story.