Seismic and infrasonic monitoring on the Spitsbergen archipelago

In late 2010, the Geophysical Survey, Kola Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences installed a system of constant seismic and infrasonic monitoring on the Spitsbergen archipelago. To date, this system is the only tool to implement joint monitoring of seismic and infrasonic events in this part of the Arctic. The hardware and software structure of subsystems of monitoring and data transmission are considered. The automatic detection of infrasonic events is described. Widespread commercially available hardware components have been used. Preliminary results of the seismic and infrasonic monitoring on the Spitsbergen archipelago in 2011 are given. A hypothesis is developed about the relationship between infrasonic and seismic emissions with the processes occurring in the cryosphere of the archipelago.