Ground Motions Underground Compared to Those on the Surface: A Case Study from Sudbury, Ontario
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Abstract
We compare signals recorded on hard-rock seismographic stations in Sudbury, Ontario, to those recorded in caverns below the surface stations, in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. Signals from shallow local events show strong apparent amplification of ground motion observed on the surface relative to those recorded at depths of 1.4–2.1 km; the amplification peaks near 2.1 Hz, where it is on average a factor of 3 to 5. The peak narrows, decreases in amplitude, and shifts toward lower frequencies (0.8–1 Hz) for regional and teleseismic events. The peak in apparent amplification for the local events is attributed to a strong Rg phase from shallow events at close distances. The frequency shift and decay of the amplitude of this peak for more distant events reflects the rapidly-diminishing influence of the higher-frequency components of this phase with distance, coupled with the increasing importance of shear-wave phases.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".