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Earthquake Geeking the Old-School Way
Dec. 21st, 2006 09:25 amYou young whippersnappers! In MY day, we didn't have your World Wide Webs! We uploaded with baud! Uphill! Both ways! In a packet storm! We ATE spam and LIKED it!
And when we wanted to know what that damn quake was, WE USED OUR FINGER!
(Highlight of appropriate line added via distinctly non-old-school FONT tag. Tongue completely in cheek to avoid coyote-like lolling.)
You kids these days...no appreciation for a command line interface!
And get offa my lawn!
Less colorfully--yeah, we felt that. More like a bangish THUMP, like a car hitting the building or a cabinet falling, than any real shaking thing. I'm quite gratified that pegging it as a 4.0 got me within a mere factor of three (remember, Richter is a logarithmic scale) of those guys with their fancy-schmancy seismographs. ;)
-- Lorrie ("And we LIKED it!")
And when we wanted to know what that damn quake was, WE USED OUR FINGER!
(Highlight of appropriate line added via distinctly non-old-school FONT tag. Tongue completely in cheek to avoid coyote-like lolling.)
lwood@lorien:~$ finger -l quake@quake.geo.berkeley.edu
[quake.geo.berkeley.edu]
Login name: quake In real life: EQs? USE finger -l
Directory: /home/dc1/quake Shell: /bin/csh
Never logged in.
No unread mail
Plan:
RAPID EARTHQUAKE LOCATION SERVICE
U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California.
U.C. Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Berkeley, California.
(members of the Council of the National Seismic System)
NOTE: Information in this page is updated regularly. If you are accessing
this page via the Web, you may need to RELOAD the page to get current data.
Below is a list of magnitude 2 or greater earthquakes recorded by the USGS
Northern California Seismic Network and the UCB Berkeley Digital Seismic
Network during the last 3 days. All times are in UTC (Universal Time),
which is 8 hours ahead of PST and 7 hours ahead of PDT. This catalog is
valid for Central and Northern California (approximately north of San Luis
Obispo along the coast and 37 degrees N at the Nevada border).
Magnitudes are reported as local magnitude (Ml) or coda duration magnitude
(Md) for small events. Depth is in kilometers. Q is location quality,
where the quality of the location solution is A=E (A=good, E=bad), and '*'
indicates the solution is from an automated system and has not been reviewed
by staff.
Note: This is PRELIMINARY information. Earthquakes before 00:00 UT today
which occur > ~50 km outside the boundaries of the network will not be
listed unless reviewed by seismologists.
Catalogs for other regions of the country can be obtained by using
`finger quake@computer' for the following computers:
geophys.washington.edu (Washington and Oregon)
seismo.unr.edu (Nevada) scec.gps.caltech.edu (southern California)
eqinfo.seis.utah.edu (Utah) fm.gi.alaska.edu (Alaska)
slueas.slu.edu (central US) gldfs.cr.usgs.gov (large world-wide)
tako.wr.usgs.gov (Hawaii)
WWW access: for these lists, maps, and more go to http://quake.usgs.gov
Updated at Thu Dec 21 17:16:00 GMT 2006 a.k.a. Thu Dec 21 09:16:00 PST 2006
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DATE-(UTC)-TIME LAT LON DEP MAG Q COMMENTS
yy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss deg. deg. km
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06/12/18 19:48:04 38.82N 122.79W 0.6 2.7Md A* 3 km NNE of The Geysers, CA
06/12/19 00:03:07 35.60N 120.75W 5.8 2.3Md B* 6 km NW of Templeton, CA
06/12/19 04:06:41 36.16N 120.28W 10.9 2.1Md B* 8 km ENE of Coalinga, CA
06/12/19 06:36:28 40.34N 124.46W 18.9 3.3Ml C* 15 km W of Petrolia, CA
06/12/19 15:10:10 37.49N 118.19W 12.6 2.5Md B* 23 km NE of Bishop, CA
06/12/19 15:15:19 37.49N 118.19W 12.1 2.8Md B* 23 km NE of Bishop, CA
06/12/19 15:18:40 37.49N 118.19W 10.9 3.4Ml B* 23 km NE of Bishop, CA
06/12/19 15:21:42 37.49N 118.19W 9.2 4.0Ml B* 23 km NE of Bishop, CA
06/12/19 15:36:09 37.49N 118.19W 5.8 2.7Md B* 23 km NE of Bishop, CA
06/12/20 00:47:42 38.67N 119.84W 0.0 2.6Md B* 4 km WSW of Markleeville, CA
06/12/20 02:14:35 38.83N 122.80W 2.8 2.6Md A* 4 km N of The Geysers, CA
06/12/20 09:48:27 40.61N 124.22W 16.4 2.7Md C* 5 km NE of Ferndale, CA
06/12/20 13:47:54 40.72N 121.52W 10.4 2.2Md C* 22 km SE of Burney, CA
06/12/20 20:13:01 38.82N 122.80W 3.6 2.3Md B* 2 km NNE of The Geysers, CA
06/12/21 03:12:28 37.86N 122.24W 9.0 3.7Ml A* 4 km ESE of Berkeley, CA
06/12/21 08:55:40 37.86N 122.24W 8.8 2.2Md A* 4 km ESE of Berkeley, CA 06/12/21 12:09:12 39.86N 123.48W 3.3 2.1Md B* 20 km WNW of Covelo, CA 06/12/21 13:50:08 38.08N 118.68W 6.8 2.2Md B* 29 km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV 06/12/21 14:06:32 36.47N 121.04W 4.4 2.9Md B* 11 km SE of Pinnacles, CA
You kids these days...no appreciation for a command line interface!
And get offa my lawn!
Less colorfully--yeah, we felt that. More like a bangish THUMP, like a car hitting the building or a cabinet falling, than any real shaking thing. I'm quite gratified that pegging it as a 4.0 got me within a mere factor of three (remember, Richter is a logarithmic scale) of those guys with their fancy-schmancy seismographs. ;)
-- Lorrie ("And we LIKED it!")
