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Subject: Re: about the VolksMeter
From: Brett Nordgren brett3nt@.............
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:28:31 -0500
Randall,
At 06:00 PM 2/7/2011, you wrote:
>By way of Chris Chapman, it has come to my attention that a
>significant number of readers of this list-serve are
>misinformed concerning the nature and performance of the VolksMeter
>seismograph. Even though the gravitational pendulum
>in the VolksMeter has a period of only about 1 second, that doesn't
>mean the instrument is limited to sensing only local
>earthquakes, as with conventional short-period
>seismometers. Several VolksMeters around the world--such as mine here at
>Mercer University, or Michael Phillips' seismograph at the Edward
>Pigot Seismic Observatory near Coonabarabran,
>Australia--routinely pick up the surface waves from teleseismic events.
Are you speaking about the instrument on Larry's "Current Seismicity"
page http://psn.quake.net/currentseismicity.html shown as "Macon Georgia"?
Brett
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