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Subject: Re: Manual of Seismological Observatory Practice
From: Wayne Abraham J73WA abrahamw@........
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 20:56:34 -0400


Raul

I have the latest version of Netscape and downloaded the file effortlessly.

Wayne

Raul Alvarez wrote:

> 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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