THE FIRST DIGITAL SEISMIC STATIONS IN SLOVENIA

Abstract

The development of computing has led to major changes in seismology in the field of the development of equipment for recording and storing data, and in the quality and faster processing of seismological data. The analogue record of an earthquake mostly allowed the determination of the epicentre and the magnitude of the earthquake, and sometimes also the hypocentral depth. At the beginning of digitization, the manual digitization of analogue seismograms meant that some special digital techniques could be applied. The real progress came when technology made it possible to directly convert a signal from a seismometer to digital form. Digital seismographs, a combination of a broadband seismometer with an acquisition unit, have a number of advantages, and have accelerated the development of seismology and thus our knowledge of the internal structure of our planet.