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").

This submission provides reports on the results of seismic data analyses, statistical data sets of rock properties under the DVGWF, GIS data for new maps of EGS favorability, and a link to raw seismogram data archived by the IRIS-DMS.

This dataset includes raw and processed seismic data from the 2021 seismic survey at the San Emidio geothermal field in Nevada. In April and May 2021, 37 tri-axial short period seismographs were deployed in a 1.8km diameter cluster centered on 40.367278 N, 119.409019 W. The first data record started at 2021-04-06T07:09:10Z UTC and the last record ended at 2021-05-11T02:58:52Z UTC. The 37 stations included 29 SmartSolo IGU-16HR 3C all-in-one 5 Hz seismographs and 8 DataCube seismographs with 4.5 Hz HGS HG-6(B coil) tri-axial geophones. The raw format (level 0) data includes 353 GB of 500 sps SmartSolo data in native DLD format, 113 GB of 400 sps DataCube data in native DataCube format, and 3.4 GB of GPS data collected during the RTK GPS survey. The SAC data (level 1) files include 564 GB of hourly SAC files. The experiment was designed to monitor seismic activity before, during, and after the planned three-day plant maintenance shutdown April 19-21, 2021. The pumping stopped at 2021/04/19 12:51:45 UTC and resumed about 2021/04/21 21:00:00 UTC. The dataset is hosted in an AWS data lake, with an associated GDR data set providing the metadata. Links to both of these resources are included below. Additionally, this collection features data and metadata from a 2016 seismic survey at the same site for comparative analysis.

1301 Vertical Component seismic instruments were deployed at San Emidio Geothermal field in Nevada in December 2016. The first record starts at 2016-12-05T02:00:00.000000Z (UTC) and the last record ends at 2016-12-11T14:00:59.998000Z (UTC). Data are stored in individual files in one-minute increments. Data includes seismic station locations, seismic data logger specifications, instrumentation specifications, descriptions of data, a fracture finding summary and the final report for the 2016 WHOLESCALE seismic survey done in San Emidio, Nevada.