MANUFACTURERS OF WORLD-CLASS SEISMIC INSTRUMENTATION FOR THIRTY FIVE YEARS
We provide a full range of products and services including:
- Broadband seismometers and force balance accelerometers
- Bespoke engineering and system design
- Supply of turnkey seismic/compliance monitoring systems
- Field services including integration testing and commissioning
- Project management
- Maintenance and after-sales support
- Summary data analysis
- Quality Control
TRUSTED BY CUSTOMERS ALL OVER THE WORLD
Over the last 35 years, Güralp has supplied thousands of seismic instruments, including borehole and ocean bottom systems, to customers across all continents and in a range of sectors:
Academic Research and Government
Civil Engineering
Energy
OUR HISTORY AND KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
1985
Güralp Systems is established and the revolutionary 3T seismometer is launched.
All of our seismic sensors employ the principle of negative force feedback to minimise the motion of the mass, and keep it centred within the seismometer frame. This technology vastly extends the bandwidth and linearity of the seismometer, recording seismic signals with periods from 360 seconds to over 100 Hz.
1985
1987 - 1989
Incorporation and our first major projects
Güralp Systems Limited is incorporated in 1987 and shortly after we start working with Kiyoshi Suyehiro based in Tokyo. With him, we develop the first ever ocean bottom borehole seismometer for deployment in the Japan Sea. In 1989, the instrument is installed in the sediment to a depth of 715 m in 2,807 metres of water. The project forms part of the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP), an international program for furthering Earth Sciences.
1990 - 1999
Our product range expands
The decade is rounded off perfectly with a Queens Award for Export Achievement in 1999.
1990 - 1999
2000 - 2009
Established and growing
We further extend our digitiser and data recording product capability and launch the popular 3ESPC seismometer.
In 2008 we are selected to supply borehole instrumentation as part of the ‘San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) project.
2010 - 2019
Product focus
Also in 2010 a private equity firm acquires the main share-holding in the business.
In 2016 our first 'any angle' sensor, the Radian is launched alongside the new Minimus digitiser featuring advanced data communication capabilities. This sparks a period of rapid product development which sees the launch of the Fortimus, Certimus and Aquarius instruments as well as the Minimus+ digitiser.
In 2019 we secure a contract to supply 120 Aquarius ocean bottom systems to Canada’s National Facility for Seismic Imaging (“NFSI”) based at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
2010 - 2019
2020 - Today
More recently
Substantial project wins include supplying 190 digital accelerometers to the Canadian government for Earthquake Early Warning in 2021 and; in 2022, a project to supply 300 full seismic stations to the China Earthquake Administration.
At the end of 2022, we launched Certis and Minimus2 to a warm reception and celebrated 35 years since incorporation! In December 2023, working in partnership with Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulanologia (INGV) we successfully deployed the Worlds first SMART cable on the ocean floor near Catania, Sicily.
In 2024 we launched the dual sensor Hexis, a posthole instrument with a realised dynamic range of over 200 dB.
