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Subject: Re: Manual of Seismological Observatory Practice
From: Raul Alvarez ralvarez@........
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:43:04 -0600


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.
>
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