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Test and calibration of the Digital World-Wide Standardized Seismograph Test and calibration of the Digital World-Wide Standardized Seismograph

During the past decade there has been steady progress in the modernization of the global seismograph network operated by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The World-Wide Standardized Seismograph Network (WWSSN) has been augmented by new stations with advanced instrumentation, including the Seismic Research Observatories (SRO) and the modified High-Gain Long-Period (ASRO) stations. One...
Authors
Jon Peterson, Charles R. Hutt

Design concepts for a Global Telemetered Seismograph Network Design concepts for a Global Telemetered Seismograph Network

This study represents a first step in developing an integrated, real-time global seismic data acquisition system a Global Telemetered Seismograph Network (GTSN). The principal objective of the GTSN will be to acquire reliable, high-quality, real-time seismic data for rapid location and analysis of seismic events. A secondary, but important, objective of the GTSN is to augment the...
Authors
Jon Peterson, Nicholas A. Orsini

Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska: January 1982 Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska: January 1982

The preliminary geomagnetic data included here is made available to scientific personnel and organizations, as part of a cooperative effort and on a data exchange basis because of the early need by some users. To avoid delay, all of the data is copied from original forms processed at the observatory; therefore it should be regarded as preliminary.
Authors
John B. Townshend, J.E. Papp, E.A. Sauter, L.Y. Torrence

Geomagnetic local and regional harmonic analyses Geomagnetic local and regional harmonic analyses

Procedures are developed for using rectangular and cylindrical harmonic analyses in local and regional areas. Both the linear least squares analysis, applicable when component data are available, and the nonlinear least squares analysis, applicable when only total field data are available, are treated. When component data are available, it is advantageous to work with residual fields...
Authors
L.R. Alldredge

International geomagnetic reference field 1980: a report by IAGA Division I working group. International geomagnetic reference field 1980: a report by IAGA Division I working group.

Describes the recommendations of the working group, which suggested additions to IGRF because of the cumulative effect of the inevitable uncertainties in the secular variation models which had led to unacceptable inaccuracies in the IGRF by the late 1970's. The recommendations were accepted by the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy on August 15, 1981 at the 4th...
Authors
N.W. Peddie

Huge landslide blocks in the growth of piton de la fournaise, La réunion, and Kilauea volcano, Hawaii Huge landslide blocks in the growth of piton de la fournaise, La réunion, and Kilauea volcano, Hawaii

Piton de la Fournaise, on the island of La Réunion, and Kilauea volcano, on the island of Hawaii, are active, basaltic shield volcanoes growing on the flanks of much larger shield volcanoes in intraplate tectonic environments. Past studies have shown that the average rate of magma production and the chemistry of lavas are quite similar for both volcanoes. We propose a structural...
Authors
Wendell A. Duffield, Laurent Stieltjes, Jacques Varet
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