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Open-File Report 2014–1218

World-Wide Standardized Seismograph Network: A Data Users Guide

By Jon Peterson and Charles R. Hutt

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The purpose of this report, which is based on an unpublished draft prepared in the 1970s, is to provide seismologists with the information they may need to use the World-Wide Standardized Seismograph Network (WWSSN) data set as it becomes available in a more easily accessible and convenient format on the Internet. The report includes a description of the WWSSN network, station facilities, operations and instrumentation, a derivation of the instrument transfer functions, tables of transfer functions, a description of calibration techniques, and a description of a method used to determine important instrument constants using recorded calibration data.

First posted November 17, 2014

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Suggested citation:

Peterson, Jon, and Hutt, C.R., 2014, World-Wide Standardized Seismograph Network—A data users guide: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014–1218, 74 p., https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141218.

ISSN 2331-1258 (online)



Contents

Foreword

Preface

Background

WWSSN Network Configuration and Station Information

WWSSN Instrumentation

WWSSN Station Facilities

WWSSN Operating Procedures

WWSSN Seismogram Format

WWSSN Seismogram Noise Characteristics

WWSSN System Transfer Functions

WWSSN Calibration

References Cited

Appendix A1. Derivation of a Generalized World-Wide Standardized Seismograph Network Transfer Function

Appendix A2. Method used to Profile a WWSSN Long-Period Step Response


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