CTBT Science and Technology Conference 2021 (SnT2021)

Seismic Monitoring in Canada During COVID

O4.5-479

30 Jun 2021, 11:21

15m

Location 1 (Online)

Oral T4.5 - Resilience of the CTBT Monitoring Regime, including Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic T4.5 - Resilience of the CTBT Monitoring Regime, including Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Speaker

Mr David McCormack (Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada)

Description

We describe the standard pre-COVID mode of operations for the Canadian National
Seismograph Network, a large continental-scale monitoring network, and for the associated IMS stations in Canada. We examine how the operational posture has evolve and then discuss the manners in which the posture was found suitable and unsuitable to respond to the challenges and constraints of the COVID-19 situation in Canada. We find that many of the design and operations decisions that have been taken over the last several decades for seismic monitoring operations in Canada, driven largely by considerations of resilience and cost-effectiveness, and further refined after the lessons-learned of the H1N1 pandemic, resulted in a system that continued to function effectively under pandemic lockdown conditions. Specific challenges and lessons learned during the first annual cycle of the pandemic are noted.

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We describe the specific challenges and lessons learned during the first annual cycle of the pandemic for the Canadian National
Seismograph Network, a large continental-scale monitoring network, and for the associated IMS stations in Canada.

Presentation materials

O4.5-479_McCormack.pdf