Seismic Response Coordinator
Coordinated Response to Significant Seismic Events
The Seismic Response Coordinator is an autonomous software component executed from radiation-hardened NOR flash that directs facility safety measures during lunar seismic activity. Consuming 0.5 watts with a 60-second response latency, it alerts Ark systems, shifts equipment into safe mode, and initiates robotic inspections. Lunar seismic management requires differentiating surface meteoroid impacts from deep moonquakes, which Apollo data recorded up to magnitude 5. Designed for a 100-year operational lifetime and a 500,000-hour mean time between failures, the software cross-references detection processors and logs authenticated event audit trails for maintenance controllers.
Coordinated response to significant seismic events — alerting Ark systems, triggering inspection, and informing L1-MNT.
Purpose
Coordinated response to significant seismic events — alerting Ark systems, triggering inspection, and informing L1-MNT.
Context
Child of L2-SSM-SEIS within the Lunar Ark system
Principles
- ▸Magnitude threshold alerts
- ▸Coordination with L3-MMD-DET-PROC (impact vs quake distinction)
- ▸Automatic equipment safe-mode on large events
- ▸Trigger inspection by L3-ROB-INSP
- ▸L1-DVT event archive
Typical implementations
- ▸Earthquake early-warning systems (terrestrial)
- ▸ISS event response heritage
- ▸Aerospace contingency response
Lunar considerations
- ▸Deep moonquakes magnitude 5 documented (per Apollo)
- ▸Authenticated response triggers
- ▸Audit trail
Specifications
Functional
| primary function | Coordinated response to significant seismic events — alerting Ark systems, triggering inspection, and informing L1-MNT. |
| response latency s | 60 |
Physical
| mass kg | 0 |
| materials | Code on rad-hard NOR flash |
| vacuum compatibility | True |
Operational
| power consumption w | 0.5 |
| thermal range c | -40, 70 |
| lifetime years | 100 |
| mtbf hours | 500000 |
Interfaces
Provides
- Post-event inspection triggers
- Event response status
Requires
- Event data
Cite this entry
Lunar Ark Codex. "Seismic Response Coordinator" (L3-SSM-SEIS-RESP). Retrieved 10 September 2026, from https://lunarark.com/entry/L3-SSM-SEIS-RESP
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