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Subject: Re: North East USA?
From: Greg ghost@.............
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 22:33:53 -0700


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

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