Bonnie,


Do you use a PC?  Is it possible to use a DOS window?  


If you install java on a PC, then I could write

a simple program that would periodically check for new events in

California and sound an alarm if one is reported.  Then you

could listen to the file of recent events to get the coordinates,

time and location.  The file format would be like this,

which is the "finger" format.  These are the last two events reported

by Caltech.


99/07/03 00:20:15  33.96N 116.82W  18.5 2.3ML  A    4 mi. NE  of
Banning, CA

99/07/03 01:26:47  37.18N 118.40W   5.5 3.0ML  C    7 mi. W   of Big
Pine, CA






At 08:04 AM 7/3/99 -0700, Bonnie wrote:

What I am looking for--and there

>probably isn't such a thing--but an alarm to sound at the time of a
quake

>occurring and then text to appear telling me in plain text where the
quake

>occurred and the epicenter and magnitude of the event.  



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