USGS Professonal Paper 1096 - IRIS

CALIFORNIA
Wasbjngton
DC
GENERAL INFORMATION
Operated by:
Address:
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey for
the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Washington. DC
(Obsolete)
Address to obtain records:
SITE INFORMATION
National Geopbvsical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center
NOAA/EDS, 062
Boulder, CO 80302
Code
Station name
Latitude
(deg N.)
Longitude
(deg H.)
Elev
(meEel'S)
Date
epenea
Date
elesell
Foundation; geologic age
SHS Shasta Dam-------------- 40.6950
122.3883
312
7/42
1953
Copley Greenstone (meta-andesite);
Devonian.
INSTRUMENTATION
Seismometer
Code Type Component
To(sec)
Galuo
T (sec)
g
l)'fIC
recording
Magnification
at T
0
Remarks
SHS Benioff-------------- Z,NS,EW
1.5
35-llUIl film
Timing system: Chronometer with WWV automatically checked several times a day.
System response curves:
Not available.
SHORT HISTORY
SHS was part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's "Central Valley" project.
Sacramento and Pit Rivers near Reading, Calif.
It is just below the confluence of the
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