Hydroacoustic catalogs along the Southwest Indian Ridge between 2016 and 2018

Mid-ocean ridges represent divergent plate boundaries characterized by the interaction of volcanic and tectonic processes, resulting in the creation of a new ocean floor. These complex interactions lead to the occurrence of numerous low-magnitude earthquakes (M less than 4), which often go unnoticed by terrestrial seismic networks due to the rapid attenuation of seismic waves within the Earth’s crust. But, these earthquakes generate T-waves with frequencies of up to 60 Hz in the water column from the conversion of seismic waves into low-frequency hydroacoustic waves at the seafloor which propagate over large distances (several thousands of km) with little attenuation through an acoustic waveguide known as the sound fixing and ranging (SOFAR) channel. The OHASISBIO and IMS-CTBTO networks of hydrophones, designed to record these T-waves in the Indian Ocean, encompass three mid-ocean ridges with contrasted spreading rates: the ultraslow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR; 14 mm/yr), the slow spreading Central Indian Ridge (CIR; 40 mm/yr), and the intermediate spreading Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR; 60 mm/yr) which converge at Rodrigues Triple Junction (RTJ). In this depository, we have put hydroacoustic catalogs of three swarms detected along the Southwest Indian Ridge between 2016 and 2018. These swarms are located near the Novara transofrm fault, melville transofrm fault and at segment 4

Disciplines

Marine geology

Keywords

Southwest Indian Ridge, Hydroacoustic, Impulsive Events, Fracture Zone, Ridge segment

Location

-15N, -45S, 55E, 85W

Devices

The acoustic sensor is a piezometer calibrated by its manufacturer (High Tech Inc.). The calibration process involves determining the response curve, which characterizes the sensor’s sensitivity to different frequencies. For the sensors we used (mostly HTI-90U), the response curve is flat in the frequency range from 2Hz to 1 kHz. This calibration information ensures accurate interpretation of the recorded acoustic data within the specified frequency range.

Data

FileSizeFormatProcessingAccess
Hydroacoustic catalogs along the Southwest Indian Ridge
4 MozipProcessed data
Summary of data description
8 MoDOC, DOCX
How to cite
Ingale Vaibhav Vijay, Bazin Sara, Royer Jean-Yves (2024). Hydroacoustic catalogs along the Southwest Indian Ridge between 2016 and 2018. SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/101039
In addition to properly cite this dataset, it would be appreciated that the following work(s) be cited too, when using this dataset in a publication :
Vijay Ingale Vaibhav, Bazin Sara, Olive Jean-Arthur, Briais Anne, Royer Jean-Yves (2023). Hydroacoustic Study of a Seismic Swarm in 2016–2017 near the Melville Transform Fault on the Southwest Indian Ridge. Bulletin Of The Seismological Society Of America. 113 (4). 1523-1541. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120220213, https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00836/94784/
Ingale Vaibhav Vijay, Bazin Sara, Royer Jean-Yves (2021). Hydroacoustic Observations of Two Contrasted Seismic Swarms along the Southwest Indian Ridge in 2018. Geosciences. 11 (6). 225 (18p.). https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11060225, https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00820/93152/

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