Seismic Data of Nuclear Tests

Borovoye Archive Data from Underground Nuclear Tests

Seismic data from underground nuclear tests recorded at the Borovoye Geophysical Observatory (BRV) since 1966 are available in CSS3.0 relational database format. Waveform data from 711 explosions are available at this site. Complete set of the waveform data should be available from IRIS-DMC in Seattle, WA and CMR (Center for Monitoring Research) in Washington D.C.


  Table 1 Borovoye Archive for World-wide Underground Nuclear Tests, 1966-1996  
Country Test site Time period BRV data
USSR Semipalatinsk Test Site 1966 Dec 18 - 1989 Oct 19 228
  Novaya Zemlya 1967 Oct 21 - 1990 Oct 24 31
  Peaceful Nuclear Explosions 1967 Oct 06 - 1988 Sep 06 80
China Lop Nor Test Site 1970 Sep 22 - 1995 May 15 11
France Tuamotu Archipelago 1977 Mar 19 - 1996 Jan 27 68
United Kingdom Nevada Test Site 1978 Apr 11 - 1989 Dec 08 15
United States Nevada Test Site 1967 May 23 - 1992 Mar 26 278
 Total number of UNTs in the BRV archive 711

UNT Maps and Tables


Waveform Data in UNIX tar files for Downloading (Notice that larger files are over 20 Megabytes!)
View or Download Documents on the BRV Archive Nuclear Explosion Database Additional tables and database BRV Archive, Nuclear Explosion Database (individual event db in unix tar)
(These are older files and are not recommended)

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