Hello John, Has anyone had trouble downloading the files via FTP? Netscape cannot seem to find them. Raul John Lahr wrote: > The "Manual of Seismological Observatory Practice" is available > in PDF format at this location: > > http://caldera.wr.usgs.gov/msop/index.html > > The Manual of Seismological Observatory Practice arose from a resolution of the > United Nations Economic and Social > Council, which was laid before the Committee for Standardisation of Seismographs > and Seismograms of the International > Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior. This Committee > met at Unesco House in Paris from March 12 > to 15, 1963, and specified the general requirements of the Manual as follows: > i. It would act as a guide for governments in setting up or running > seismological networks. It would therefore include a > selection of designs for recording stations, and suggestions for staffing and > organisations both at the recording points and at > a central office > ii. It would contain all necessary information on instrumentation and > procedure, to enable the station to fulfil normal > international and local functions. > iii. It would not contain any extensive account of the aims or methods of > utilising the seismic data, as these were in the > province of existing textbooks. > > Introduction > > The Manual of Seismological Observatory Practice was published in September, > 1979 by World Data Center A for Solid > Earth Geophysics as Report SE-20. The Manual's editor was P.L. Willmore of the > Institute of Geological Sciences, > Edinburgh, Scotland. The World Data Center A for Solid Earth Geophysics was a > unit of the U.S. Department of Commerce, > National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Data and > Information Service in Boulder, Colorado. The > Manual has been out of print for many years and is still a standard reference > work for seismologists. To make the Manual > available again, we have provided this online version. The 159 pages of the > manual were scanned by Mrs. Willie Lee, the > resulting 159 TIF files were placed in ten Microsoft Word files by Dr. Willie > Lee to provide continuity of page numbers. The > Word files were converted to Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) files, > hyperlinks were added, and this html > front-end was created by Michael Diggles. > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Public Seismic Network Mailing List (PSN-L) > > To leave this list email listserver@.............. with the body of the > message: leave PSN-L _____________________________________________________________________ Public Seismic Network Mailing List (PSN-L)
Larry Cochrane <cochrane@..............>