Nick & Sophie Caporossi wrote: > > To PSN group: > The ldgo.columbia.edu at: > >http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/finger?quake@................. The finger server is not responding directly. I thought it might have been a broken cgi script, but it wasn't. You're best bet is to write to root@................. or maybe administrator@................. or maybe postmaster. It might be under attack or taken down by accident. Finger servers provide a lot information for crackers (bad hackers) and sys admins take them down to limit that. > Canada. It is no longer doing so. Does any one know of another site that > has the same information? There might be a ftp server or mailing list with the exact same info. The sys admin (root) would know for sure. > 1: In some Earthquakes, why is it that the "P" and "S" waves do not arrive > at the time where I would expect them to? I'll skip that one for someone else to wrestle with. > 2: In some quakes, the Event starts with a large Spike and then gradually > decreases. Why? > > 3: Why do some quakes gradually swell. They look like a rubber garden hose > that is on the verge of blowing up. The 6.3 in the Solomon Islands on > 7/9/99 made that kind of an unusual foot print. I try to imagine the plates actual contact and movement. Is is hard rock snapping? Or maybe more like a landslide giving way. Good luck with that finger info, Greg _____________________________________________________________________ Public Seismic Network Mailing List (PSN-L)
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