The utility of passive seismic emission tomography for mapping geothermal permeability has been tested at San Emidio in Nevada. The San Emidio study area overlaps a geothermal field in production since 1987 and another resource to the south of the production field. Passive seismic data collections were completed at San Emidio in late 2016 by Microseismic Inc as part of a DOE project. The PSET results are being analyzed as part of the WHOLESCALE project. This submission includes P-wave velocity model data, and the passive seismic data with more information on each bellow.

Included here are seismic data recorded at the San Emidio Geothermal field in Nevada. This passive seismic data were collected as part of the DOE-funded Subsurface Technology and Engineering R&D (SubTER) project to advance imaging and characterization of geothermal permeability. In December 2016, 1301 vertical-component seismic instruments were deployed at the San Emidio Geothermal field in Nevada. Data collection spanned a 160 hour timeframe, beginning on December 5th and ending on December 11th. Data are stored as individual files in one-minute increments in SEGD and MSEED formats and are downloadable as a zipped directory or available in a cloud-accessible format. Comprehensive metadata and project summaries are included in GDR submission 1386 (linked below as "2016 Seismic Survey Metadata at San Emidio").

Metadata for the Reftek seismometer array deployed at the POROTOMO's Natural Laboratory in Brady Hot Spring, Nevada during the March 2016 testing.

In September 2016, 989 vertical-component seismic instruments were deployed for 75 hours at the Crescent Valley greenfield geothermal play area in Nevada. Data were recorded 12/9/16 - 12/15/16. Data are stored in individual files in one-minute increments in SEGD formats. See the metadata in Crescent Valley Station Locations.sp1, Crescent Valley Observer Logs.xls, and the attached Metadata link for details about the seismic station locations, seismic data logger specifications, instrumentation specifications, descriptions of data, a fracture finding summary, and the final report for the 2016 seismic survey done in Crescent Valley, Nevada. Note that no discrete events were identified, and a 1750m x 2250m x 300m PSET volume of acoustic energy was delivered.

This data is in sac format and includes recordings of two active source events from 238 three-component nodal seismometers deployed at Bradys Hot Springs geothermal field as part of the PoroTomo project. The source was a viberoseis truck operating in P-wave vibrational mode and generating a swept-frequency signal. The files are 33 seconds long starting 4 seconds before each sweep was initiated. There is some overlap in the file times.