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USGS Professonal Paper 1096 - IRIS

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HAWAI I AND THE PAC IFI C- -Coul iuued<br />

SHORT HISTORY<br />

Agana, Guam<br />

Th, t>arliest station 00 Guam ." sponsored by the Manila Observatory; recording of , two-component Wiechert began io 1914.<br />

GUA w., established in 1947 part of the Guam Microseismic Project, along with NAH, Naha io th. Ryukyu Islands, .od SBP,<br />

Subic B,y io th. Philippines. It " ,"0 hy th. Fleet Weather Central Research l,aboratory "d<br />

""<br />

w" located approximately 20 km<br />

west-southwest of its present location. Tho project ended on the outlying islands by early 1950 ond ." terminated on Guam in<br />

1955. Th, WWSSN station, GllA, w" opf'Df'd in Apri 1 1963.<br />

GUMO i, an SRO station located on th' main Observatory grounds ot Potts Junction ,nd h" been in operation since August 1975.<br />

PJG was activated in May 1957 ., , Gf'orna goet i c Seismologjcal Stat jon for lise jn the 1GY Pad fi c Project along wjth KOR and<br />

TRU. 10 1965, PJG became .0 integral part of th' Pacifi c Tsunami Warning System.<br />

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