HR: 1340h
AN: S33B-0328 [Abstracts]
TI: Current Development at the Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC)
AU: * Appel, V L
EM: vikki@gps.caltech.edu
AF: California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd.
M/C 252-21, Pasadena, CA 91125
United States
AU: Clayton, R W
EM: clay@gps.caltech.edu
AF: California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd.
M/C 252-21, Pasadena, CA 91125
United States
AB:
Over the past year, the SCEDC completed or is near completion of three featured projects:
Station Information System (SIS) Development:
The SIS will provide users with an interface into complete and accurate station metadata for all current and historic data at
the SCEDC. The goal of this project is to develop a system that can interact with a single database source to enter, update
and retrieve station metadata easily and efficiently. The system will provide accurate station/channel information for active
stations to the SCSN real-time processing system, as will as station/channel information for stations that have parametric
data at the SCEDC i.e., for users retrieving data via STP. Additionally, the SIS will supply information required to generate
dataless SEED and COSMOS V0 volumes and allow stations to be added to the system with a minimum, but incomplete set of
information using predefined defaults that can be easily updated as more information becomes available. Finally, the system
will facilitate statewide metadata exchange for both real-time processing and provide a common approach to CISN historic
station metadata.
Moment Tensor Solutions:
The SCEDC is currently archiving and delivering Moment Magnitudes and Moment Tensor Solutions (MTS) produced by the SCSN in
real-time and post-processing solutions for events spanning back to 1999.
The automatic MTS runs on all local events with magnitudes > 3.0, and all regional events > 3.5. The distributed solution
automatically creates links from all USGS Simpson Maps to a text e-mail summary solution, creates a .gif image of the
solution, and updates the moment tensor database tables at the SCEDC.
Searchable Scanned Waveforms Site:
The Caltech Seismological Lab has made available 12,223 scanned images of pre-digital analog recordings of major earthquakes
recorded in Southern California between 1962 and 1992 at http://www.data.scec.org/research/scans/. The SCEDC has developed a
searchable web interface that allows users to search the available files, select multiple files for download and then
retrieve a zipped file containing the results. Scanned images of paper records for M>3.5 southern California earthquakes
and several significant teleseisms are available for download via the SCEDC through this search tool.
DE: 7200 SEISMOLOGY
DE: 7294 Seismic instruments and networks (0935, 3025)
SC: Seismology [S]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005