Rapid distribution of earthquake information for everybody
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Abstract
No matter who you are, seismologist or regular person on the street, when you feel the Earth move you want to know what's going on. Was it an earthquake? Where was the earthquake? How big was it? As a grad student, many moons ago, when the Earth moved, the Electronic Seismologist (ES) was known to immediately turn on the “AM/FM-Automatic-Earthquake-Locator.” Before the seismograms could be pulled off the photographic drums, developed, and read and an “official” hypocenter determined (using a large map and a piece of string to swing arcs), the radio would usually have reported a location. Individuals feeling the earthquake would have called radio and TV stations (not to mention the police, newspapers, and sometimes the seismograph station), reported feeling something, and described what it was like. Reporters taking these calls got pretty good at estimating roughly where the event was, and they sometimes came up with a fairly good estimate of the magnitude. This seat-of-the-pants radio-seismology is fast becoming a lost art. Reporters now race to their computers and point their Web browsers at the nearest seismic network where they can count on finding, within minutes, an automatic but “official” location and magnitude for the earthquake.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Rapid distribution of earthquake information for everybody |
| Series title | Seismological Research Letters |
| DOI | 10.1785/gssrl.71.3.355 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Year Published | 2000 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Seismological Society of America |
| Description | 4 p. |
| First page | 355 |
| Last page | 358 |
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