{"id":4154,"date":"2021-09-15T15:24:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T15:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tungsten2.gps.caltech.edu\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2021-10-03T20:13:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T20:13:47","slug":"9-13-2021-spacex-rocket-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scsn.org\/index.php\/2021\/09\/15\/9-13-2021-spacex-rocket-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"09\/13\/2021 SpaceX Rocket launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here at the SCSN, it is common for our sensors to detect energy that isn’t always caused by an earthquake. Non-seismic energy caused by meteors, sonic booms, quarry blasting, and in the past even nuclear blasts from Nevada, is recorded in our archive. This week we detected what is most likely the energy translated to the ground by the thrusters of a Falcon 9 rocket during take-off. This SpaceX launch was executed from Vandenburg Air Force Base near Santa Maria, California, at 8:56 pm local time on Monday September 13th, with the mission of sending 51 Starlink satellites into orbit. In addition to our own seismic installations in the local area, a number of our partner seismic networks<\/a> have equipment at the base itself, all of which contributed to the detection of the launch. The seismograms and map below show an image of the waveforms detected as well as the seismometer locations with respect to the launch site.<\/p>\n

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Along with the static seismometer images, our Live Seismograms Feed<\/a> detected the launch, which is visible on the channel LCP near Santa Maria.<\/p>\n