Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica
El Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica (OVSICORI)
de la Universidad Nacional, es un instituto de investigación universitaria dedicado a la investigación de los volcanes, los sismos y otros procesos tectónicos, con el propósito de encontrar aplicaciones útiles a la sociedad que ayuden a mitigar los efectos adversos de esos fenómenos al desarrollo económico y social. Se trata de un observatorio, por cuanto una cantidad considerable de su esfuerzo va orientada a documentar la actividad sísmica, volcánica y la deformación cortical que, a su vez, retroalimenta a las actividades investigativas propias de un instituto de investigación universitaria.
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Página web:
www.ovsicori.una.ac.cr
Correo:
ovsicori@una.cr
Teléfono: (506) 2562 4001 / (506) 2261 0611 / (506) 2261 0781
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Conferencias [41]
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Conjunto de datos [14]
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Contribución a Congreso [16]
Todo tipo de recursos digitales que contribuyen en un congreso, como la presentación del congreso (diapositivas), informe de congreso, ponencia, resúmenes, demostraciones. Para las comunicaciones, pósteres o actas de ... -
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Recent Submissions
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Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures
(American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2020)Human activity causes vibrations that propagate into the ground as high-frequency seismic waves. Measures to mitigate the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused widespread changes in human activity, leading ... -
Regional characteristics of observable foreshocks
(Seismological Society of America (SSA), 2022)Measures of foreshock occurrence are systematically examined using earthquake catalogs for eight regions (Italy, southern California, northern California, Costa Rica, Onshore Japan, Alaska, Turkey, and Greece) after imposing ... -
The 27 February 2022 Lop Nor earthquake: detectability, location, and discrimination
(Seismological Society of America (SSA), 2022)A seismic event with mb 4.8 (Mw 4.2) was detected close to the Chinese Lop Nor nuclear test site on 27 February 2022. Waveforms recorded at regional and far regional distances in central Asia indicate greater likeness with ... -
Yield estimates for the six North Korean nuclear tests from teleseismic P wave modeling and intercorrelation of P and Pn recordings
(AGU Advancing Earth and Space Sciences, 2019)The yields of the six declared underground nuclear tests at the North Korean test site are estimated using high-frequency teleseismic P wave amplitude modeling and waveform equalization of short-period teleseismic P waves ... -
OKSP: a novel deep learning automatic event detection pipeline for seismic monitoring in Costa Rica
(Instituto de Ingenieros Eléctricos y Electrónicos (IEEE), 2021)Small magnitude earthquakes are the most abundant but the most difficult to locate robustly and well due to their low amplitudes and high frequencies usually obscured by heterogeneous noise sources. They highlight crucial ... -
Repeating earthquakes record fault weakening and healing in areas of megathrust postseismic slip
(American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), 2020)Repeating earthquakes (REs) rupture the same fault patches at different times allowing temporal variations in the mechanical behavior of specific areas of the fault to be interrogated over the earthquake cycle. We study ... -
Yield estimate (230 kt) for a Mueller-Murphy model of the 3 september 2017, North Korean nuclear test (mbNEIC = 6.3) from teleseismic broadband P waves assuming extensive near-source damage
(AGU Advancing Earth and Space Sciences, 2018)The 3 September 2017 underground nuclear test (mbNEIC= 6.3) is the largest of six announced North Korean explosions. The event generated many P wave seismograms at global broadband seismic stations with good signal-to-noise ... -
Aftershocks of the 2012 Mw 7.6 Nicoya, Costa Rica, earthquake and mechanics of the plate interface
(Seismological Society of America (SSA), 2017-05-02)Subduction of the Cocos plate beneath the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, generates large underthrusting earthquakes with a recurrence interval of about 50 yrs. The most recent of these events occurred on 5 September 2012 ... -
Monitoring transient changes within overpressured regions of subduction zones using ambient seismic noise
(American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), 2016)In subduction zones, elevated pore fluid pressure, generally linked to metamorphic dehydration reactions, has a profound influence on the mechanical behavior of the plate interface and forearc crust through its control on ... -
El sismo del Cerro de la Muerte, Pérez Zeledón, Ml=5,4, del 21 de octubre de 2023
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2023)Un sismo con magnitud 5,4 Ml ocurrió el 21 de octubre de 2023 a las 4:45 am hora local de Costa Rica, cuyo epicentro se ubicó a 1.1 km hacia el Sur de Buena Vista de Rivas en Pérez Zeledón, con una profundidad de 16 ... -
Crustal Velocity Anomalies in Costa Rica from Ambient Noise Tomography
(Springer Nature, 2019-08-24)We derive group velocity maps for crustal Rayleigh waves across Costa Rica and corresponding 3-D shear-wave velocity structure from ambient noise cross-correlations between 56 seismic broadband stations. The daily inter-station ... -
Introducción a la prevención de riesgos naturales: guía didáctica para docentes y facilitadores
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2017)Curso de aprovechamiento de 40 horas -
Coda wave attenuation in Mara Rosa seismic zone
(Sociedade Brasileira de Geofísica, 2013-08-26)Small local earthquakes from aftershock sequence in Mara Rosa, Goiás state, Brazil were used to estimate the coda wave attenuation in the frequency band of 1 to 20 Hz. The time-domain coda-decay method of a single ... -
Parâmetros de fonte de sismos locais por inversão de formas de ondas
(Sociedade Brasileira de Geofísica, 2010-11)The main purpose of this work is to invert seismic waveforms in order to obtain moment tensor for two medium size earthquakes detected by OVSICORI-UNA Costa Rica permanent seismic network, occurred in 2004, following the ... -
Intensidades macrosísmicas del sismo de Capellades del 30 de noviembre de 2016 (Mw = 5,4) y el contexto sísmico de la región central de Costa Rica
(Universidad Industrial de Santander, 2020-01)El 30 de noviembre del 2016, a las 18:25 hora local, se generó un sismo que se localizó a 4,4 km al noroeste de Capellades de Alvarado, Cartago, Costa Rica; con una magnitud de Mw = 5,4. De acuerdo con la Escala de ... -
Crustal Thickness Along the Central American Volcanic Arc
(American Geophysical Union, 2004)Resumen de ponencia "Crustal Thickness Along the Central American Volcanic Arc" -
Along-strike variability in the seismogenic zone below Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
(American Geophysical Union, 2002)At the subduction zone in northwestern Costa Rica, the seismogenic zone lies directly beneath the Nicoya Peninsula, allowing for near source seismic studies of earthquake activity. We located 650 earthquakes along the ... -
The March 25, 1990 (Mw=7.0, ML=6.8), earthquake at the entrance of the Nicoya Gulf, Costa Rica: Its prior activity, foreshocks, aftershocks, and triggered seismicity
(American Geophysical Union, 1995-10-10)On March 25, 1990 a large earthquake (Mw = 7.0, ML = 6.8) occurred at the entrance of the Nicoya Gulf, Costa Rica, at 1322:55.6 UTC, producing considerable damage in central Costa Rica and generating much interest about ... -
The geometry of the Wadati-Benioff zone under southern Central America and its tectonic significance: results from a high-resolution local seismographic network
(Elsevier, 1994)We present here a detailed geometry of the Wadati—Benioff zone under Costa Rica, obtained from seismicity recorded by a dense local seismographic network jointly operated by the Costa Rica Volcanological and Seismological ... -
Base computarizada de datos sobre Tectónica y Geología estructural de Centroamerica y el Caribe (Tectobase)
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 1985)Presentación de proyecto de banco computarizado sobre la bibliografía publicada sobre sobre Tectónica y Geología Estructural de Centroamérica y el Caribe (TECTOBASE)