Hi Kay,

            
Do you realise we already have a common PSN quake list ??

  Larry Cochrane has been running one since the early days and
already has many

 1000's of events listed  recent and in archives from the PSN
members


people are able to download a gif image of some ones event for a quick
look or download the data to load into their winquake to do their own
filtering etc in that event file.

see....  
http://psn.quake.net/cgi-dos/event.exe


cheers

Dave N

Sydney

Australia








At 04:17 PM 10/24/2009 -0700, you wrote:

To my earthquake
friends...

 

I wonder if anybody is interested in creating a common
PSN earthquake list.  There is a wonderful tool offered by Google
that could be used called "Google Docs".  It allows a
group of people access to documents of common interest. 


 

I've set up an example account which you can take a
peek at if you want.  

 

WEBSITE:   
http://docs.google.com

ACCOUNT:   
kay@.............

PASSWORD:    seismograph

 

Note that only one person can enter this account at a
time so be patient.

 

Now, there is not much value to a group document that
only one person can access at a time.  HOWEVER, if anybody has a
google account, the document can be SHARED with that 
account.

 

What is most amazing is that you can have any number
of people editing the document at the same time, AND, you can actually
see others adding information in real time by watching their
keystrokes.  I'm not sure who designed this product but it is quite
amazing.

 

So, we could have a master earthquake list under a PSN
account.  Then the PSN master can "invite" anybody on the
PSN network to share the list.  That person, then, would set up
their own Google account and the spreadsheet would show up in their
Google docs list.

 

In this way, we can share valuable information
easily.

 

The example spreadsheet that I loaded into Google Docs
is not set in stone.  It is just an example of what might be. 
The entries in the spreadsheet are:

DATE YY/MM/DD 
TIME(GMT) 
HR:MN:SS 
LAT (deg) 
LON (deg) 
DEPTH (km)
USGS Magnitude (Mw) 
Earthquake Location 
My Station Name 
P-WAVE ARRIVAL TIME(GMT) HR:MN:SS 
S-WAVE ARRIVAL TIME(GMT) HR:MN:SS 
Distance to earthquake (deg) 
Comments



The last five entries are specific to your
station only.  The rest are specific to the earthquake and common to
all stations.

 

You can do all the usually spreadsheet things like
sort, etc.  You can also export the data into an Excel spreadsheet
local to your computer for graphing, etc.

 

You can sign up for a Google account at 

https://www.google.com/accounts

 

It would be nice to set up a dialog to see how many
folks might be interested.

 

Kay Wyatt

 

 





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