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Subject: Re: P & S Markers Location, WQ
From: John or Jan Lahr JohnJan@........
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 22:37:36 -0700




Hi Steve,

You can use the calculator on this page:
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/travel_times/artim.html
to find the time of arrival of all of the phases at your station. 

Cheers,
John

\At 09:09 PM 1/2/2005, you wrote:
Happy New Year Everyone,

Hi Steve,

You won't see a P or S wave after ~11000 km. This is because the earths core
creates a shadow of the P wave and the outer core a shadow of the S wave. If
you do a google search you can find more information. This page as a nice
image showing what going on with the P and S waves. The IAPS91 travel-time
table has information that goes past 11000km so WinQuake will place the P
and S marks in the window, but they are meaningless do to the shadowing
effect.

Regards,
Larry Cochrane
Redwood City, PSN


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