Thanks John, very useful links. I hope you don't mind, I'm CC'ing your
reply to the psnlist, where there was a fair amount of interest in
this question (largely reflecting your statements below).


Thanks again,
Dan.

On 20 March 2011 20:10, John Taber  wrote:
> Dan,
>
> A selection of representative stations would depend on the research probl=
em
> you are working on. =A0For global earth structure or a uniform set of glo=
bal
> earthquake locations, the 150 or so stations in the Global Seismic Networ=
k
> (http://www.iris.edu/hq/programs/gsn) are one reference network. =A0On a =
US
> scale, the Earthscope reference network
> (http://www.usarray.org/researchers/obs/reference ) provide reasonably
> uniform coverage. =A0 =A0On the scale of Washington state, the PNWSN coul=
d be
> the reference http://www.pnsn.org/ .
>
> In terms of who to ask the questions of, perhaps there is a local or
> regional university near you that has a geophysics group that could help
> you?
>
> Regards,
>
> John Taber
>
> On Mar 15, 2011, at 5:47 AM, Dan Bolser wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In seismology, is there a concept of a 'representative station', a
>> station that collects very similar information to others? Or is the
>> information from *every* station just as valuable (informative) as all
>> the others?
>>
>> Are there lists of representative stations?
>>
>> If I were the funding god, and I told you to axe all but 20, 50, 200,
>> or 500 stations, which stations would you choose to keep and why?
>>
>> My thinking is that 10 stations in one relatively small area must be
>> collecting similar data, and you can (perhaps) represent *nearly* all
>> 10 by picking just one of them (the most 'representative' one). Each
>> 'new' station must add more information, but at some point, the amount
>> of information gain from each additional station must plateau.
>>
>> Does any of that make any sense?
>>
>> Who should I be asking this question of?
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Dan.
>
>
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