1. Earthquake Catalog/Station Log
L Braile, 10/7/2006, revised 8/16/2007, 9/18/09

2. IRIS Seismic Monitor for ~12:00 August 16,
2007 (UTC)

3. WLIN AS-1 Seismograph 24-hour screen
display for August 15-16, 2007

4. USGS earthquake data (

5. WLIN AS-1 Seismograph 24-hour screen display for September 12-13, 2007, M8.4, M7.9, M7.0, Indonesia

6. Earthquake Catalog/Station Log
Options…
None
Minimum
“Complete”
Advantages…
Good science practice
Record of station information
Archive of event data

7. Earthquake Catalog/Station Log
Information…
Station Log…
Record “state of health” information for your seismograph
Note dates and times of calibrations, change of location, new software, time synchronization, noise characteristics, earthquakes recorded
Earthquake Catalog…
Record earthquake information for all (well recorded) seismograms – event origin time, location, magnitude, epicenter-to-station distance, etc.

8. Station log… (hand written notes) Date and Time (GMT) Comment
Examples…
Station log… (hand written notes)
Date and Time (GMT) Comment
2006 9/ : AS-1 set up and operating, clock
synch.
2006 9/4 ~10: EQ from Japan
2006 9/16 ~04: EQ M6.5 Gulf of CA
2006 9/ : Calibration pulse recorded
2006 9/ : Install new version of AmaSeis
2006 9/ : EQ M7.2 Sumatra (good surf. waves)
2006 9/ : Restart computer, clock synch.
2006 9/20 ~07: EQ Rat Islands, Aleutians
2007 5/27 10: Turn off AS-1 and computer for
summer

9. Earthquake Catalog (Excel File)…
Revised to YYMMDD Format

10. Suggestions… Record at least minimum information, hand written
Focus on well-recorded events (don’t worry about every “wiggle” or weak, distant EQs – unless you just want to see where it came from)
Synchronize clock every few days or use Internet time synch.
Get an “Atomic Clock”, set to GMT time
Create a seismogram archive for your station
Send you best seismograms to SpiNet and download some seismograms for comparison