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Authors: Di Giovanni, Matteo* 
Giunchi, Carlo* 
Saccorotti, Gilberto* 
Berbellini, Andrea* 
Boschi, Lapo* 
Olivieri, Marco* 
De Rosa, Rosario* 
Naticchioni, Luca* 
Oggiano, Giacomo* 
Carpinelli, Massimo* 
D'Urso, Domenico* 
Cuccuru, Stefano* 
Sipala, Valeria* 
Calloni, Enrico* 
Di Fiore, Luciano* 
Grado, Aniello* 
Migoni, Carlo* 
Cardini, Alessandro* 
Paoletti, Federico* 
Fiori, Irene* 
Harms, Jan* 
Majorana, Ettore* 
Rapagnani, Piero* 
Ricci, Fulvio* 
Punturo, Michele* 
Title: A Seismological Study of the Sos Enattos Area—the Sardinia Candidate Site for the Einstein Telescope
Journal: Seismological Research Letters 
Series/Report no.: 1/92 (2021)
Publisher: SSA
Issue Date: 2021
DOI: 10.1785/0220200186
Abstract: The recent discovery of gravitational waves (GWs) and their potential for cosmic observations prompted the design of the future third‐generation GW interferometers, able to extend the observation distance for sources up to the frontier of the Universe. In particular, the European detector Einstein Telescope (ET) has been proposed to reach peak strain sensitivities of about 3×10−25Hz−1/2 in the 100 Hz frequency region and to extend the detection band down to 1 Hz. In the bandwidth [1,10] Hz, the seismic ambient noise is expected to represent the major perturbation to interferometric measurements, and the site that will host the future detectors must fulfill stringent requirements on seismic disturbances. In this article, we conduct a seismological study at the Italian ET candidate site, the dismissed mine of Sos Enattos in Sardinia. In the range between few mHz to hundreds of mHz, out of the detection bandwidth for ET, the seismic noise is compatible with the new low‐noise model (Peterson, 1993); in the [0.1,1] Hz bandwidth, we found that seismic noise is correlated with sea wave height in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. In the [1,10] Hz frequency band, noise is mainly due to anthropic activities; within the mine tunnels (⁠≃100m underground), its spectrum is compliant with the requirements of the ET design. Noise amplitude decay with depth is consistent with a dominance of Rayleigh waves, as suggested by synthetic seismograms calculated for a realistic velocity structure obtained from the inversion of phase‐ and group‐velocity dispersion data from array recording of a mine blasting. Further investigations are planned for a quantitative assessment of the principal noise sources and their spatiotemporal variations.
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