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    <citation>
      <citeinfo>
        <origin>John A. Power</origin>
        <origin>Paul A. Friberg</origin>
        <origin>Mathew M. Haney</origin>
        <origin>Thomas Parker</origin>
        <origin>Scott D. Stihler</origin>
        <origin>James P. Dixon</origin>
        <pubdate>201905</pubdate>
        <title>A unified catalog of earthquake hypocenters and magnitudes at volcanoes in Alaska - 1989 to 2018</title>
        <geoform>Digital</geoform>
        <serinfo>
          <sername>Scientific Investigations Report</sername>
          <issue>SIR 2019-5037</issue>
        </serinfo>
        <pubinfo>
          <pubplace>Reston, VA</pubplace>
          <publish>U.S. Geological Survey</publish>
        </pubinfo>
        <onlink>https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20195037</onlink>
      </citeinfo>
    </citation>
    <descript>
      <abstract>The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) has maintained an earthquake catalog since 1989 that now contains&#xD;
over 120,000 hypocenters and magnitudes that occurred near&#xD;
Alaskan volcanoes. Since 1989 the seismic instrumentation&#xD;
and data acquisition and processing techniques have undergone numerous changes as computer systems and seismic&#xD;
processing software have advanced and evolved. In this report&#xD;
we recalculate earthquake hypocenters and magnitudes in a&#xD;
consistent manner between October 1989 and January 2018.&#xD;
The new hypocenters and magnitudes are archived at the AVO&#xD;
within an Advanced National Seismic Quake Monitoring System (AQMS) database and in the compressed UNIX tar&#xD;
file that accompanies this publication.</abstract>
      <purpose>Volcano monitoring</purpose>
    </descript>
    <timeperd>
      <timeinfo>
        <rngdates>
          <begdate>19891013</begdate>
          <enddate>present</enddate>
        </rngdates>
      </timeinfo>
      <current>publication date</current>
    </timeperd>
    <status>
      <progress>Complete</progress>
      <update>None planned</update>
    </status>
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      <bounding>
        <westbc>-179.99999</westbc>
        <eastbc>-140.0</eastbc>
        <northbc>63.074865689106</northbc>
        <southbc>50.736455135518</southbc>
      </bounding>
    </spdom>
    <keywords>
      <theme>
        <themekt>USGS Thesaurus</themekt>
        <themekey>Seismic Networking</themekey>
      </theme>
      <place>
        <placekt>GNIS</placekt>
        <placekey>Aleutian Volcanic Arc</placekey>
      </place>
    </keywords>
    <accconst>none</accconst>
    <useconst>none</useconst>
    <ptcontac>
      <cntinfo>
        <cntperp>
          <cntper>John A Power</cntper>
          <cntorg>ALASKA REGION: VOLCANO SCIENCE CENTER</cntorg>
        </cntperp>
        <cntpos>Research Geophysicist</cntpos>
        <cntaddr>
          <addrtype>mailing and physical</addrtype>
          <address>4230 University Drive</address>
          <city>Anchorage</city>
          <state>AK</state>
          <postal>99508</postal>
          <country>United States</country>
        </cntaddr>
        <cntvoice>907-786-7426</cntvoice>
        <cntemail>jpower@usgs.gov</cntemail>
      </cntinfo>
    </ptcontac>
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    <attracc>
      <attraccr>No formal attribute accuracy tests were conducted</attraccr>
    </attracc>
    <logic>No formal logical accuracy tests were conducted</logic>
    <complete>Data set is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract. Users are advised to read the rest of the metadata record carefully for additional details.</complete>
    <posacc>
      <horizpa>
        <horizpar>No formal positional accuracy tests were conducted</horizpar>
      </horizpa>
      <vertacc>
        <vertaccr>No formal positional accuracy tests were conducted</vertaccr>
      </vertacc>
    </posacc>
    <lineage>
      <procstep>
        <procdesc>Hypocenter errors were calculated using the USGS program Hypoinverse</procdesc>
        <procdate>201812</procdate>
      </procstep>
    </lineage>
  </dataqual>
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    <horizsys>
      <geograph>
        <latres>1.0E-4</latres>
        <longres>1.0E-4</longres>
        <geogunit>Degrees, minutes, and decimal seconds</geogunit>
      </geograph>
      <geodetic>
        <horizdn>wgs84</horizdn>
        <ellips>WGS84</ellips>
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        <denflat xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true" />
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    <vertdef>
      <depthsys>
        <depthdn>sea level</depthdn>
        <depthres>0.01</depthres>
        <depthdu>km</depthdu>
        <depthem>Explicit depth coordinate included with horizontal coordinates</depthem>
      </depthsys>
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  </spref>
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    <detailed>
      <enttyp>
        <enttypl>Earthquake catalog</enttypl>
        <enttypd>Earthquake hypocenter and magnitude data</enttypd>
        <enttypds>Klein, F.W., 2002, User’s guide to HYPOINVERSE–2000, a Fortran program to solve for earthquake locations and magnitudes: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02–171, 123 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr02171.</enttypds>
      </enttyp>
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        <attrlabl>Earthquake Hypocenters and Magnitudes</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Earthquake Hypocenters and magnitudes</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>Klein, F.W., 2002, User’s guide to HYPOINVERSE–2000, a Fortran program to solve for earthquake locations and magnitudes: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02–171, 123 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr02171.</attrdefs>
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          <edom>
            <edomv>Earthquake Hypocenters and magnitudes</edomv>
            <edomvd>Earthquake Hypocenters and magnitudes</edomvd>
            <edomvds>Klein, F.W., 2002, User’s guide to HYPOINVERSE–2000, a Fortran program to solve for earthquake locations and magnitudes: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02–171, 123 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr02171.</edomvds>
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  <distinfo>
    <distrib>
      <cntinfo>
        <cntperp>
          <cntper>John A Power</cntper>
          <cntorg>ALASKA REGION: VOLCANO SCIENCE CENTER</cntorg>
        </cntperp>
        <cntpos>Research Geophysicist</cntpos>
        <cntaddr>
          <addrtype>mailing and physical</addrtype>
          <address>4230 University Drive</address>
          <city>Anchorage</city>
          <state>AK</state>
          <postal>99508</postal>
          <country>United States</country>
        </cntaddr>
        <cntvoice>907-786-7426</cntvoice>
        <cntemail>jpower@usgs.gov</cntemail>
      </cntinfo>
    </distrib>
    <distliab>NA</distliab>
    <techpreq>This UNIX tar file contains earthquake hypocenter data.  The user must have software capable of uncompressing a UNIX tar file.</techpreq>
  </distinfo>
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    <metd>20190510</metd>
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      <cntinfo>
        <cntperp>
          <cntper>John Power</cntper>
          <cntorg>USGS - Alaska Volcano Observatory</cntorg>
        </cntperp>
        <cntpos>Geophysicist</cntpos>
        <cntaddr>
          <addrtype>mailing and physical</addrtype>
          <address>4230 University Drive</address>
          <city>Anchorage</city>
          <state>AK</state>
          <postal>99508</postal>
          <country>USA</country>
        </cntaddr>
        <cntvoice>907-786-7426</cntvoice>
        <cntemail>jpower@usgs.gov</cntemail>
      </cntinfo>
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    <metstdn>Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata</metstdn>
    <metstdv>FGDC-STD-001-1998</metstdv>
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