USGS Professonal Paper 1096 - IRIS

LOUISIANA
New Orleans, LA
GENERAL INFORMATION
Operated by:
Address:
Loyola University
Nicholas D. Burke Seismic Observatory
Loyola University
New 9tleans, lOA 79118
Telephone: 504-865-3647
Address to obtain records:
A, above.
SITE INEORMATION
Code
Station
name
Latitude Longitude Elev Date Date
(deg N. ) (deg w. ) (meters) opened closed
Foundation; geologic
,ge
NOL New Orleans------------- 29.9483 90.1200 2 1910 Open-- Thick alluvium (60 m ,nd deeper) .
INSTRUMENTATION
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Seismometer Galva Type Magnification
Code Type Component Toesec) T (sec) recording .t T
0
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Remarks
NOL Sprengnether--------- NS,EW 18.0 20.0 Photo paper 20 K ---
---do---------------- Z z.o 2.0 ---do------ 2 K Magnification
"
zo sec.
Timing system:
Standard Electric Time Clock, Invar Pendulum, checked by \/WV signal.
System response curves:
Not available.
SHORT HISTORY
N6L was started in 1910 with three wIecnert lnstruments: aO-kg lnverted-pendulum N and E components and
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pendulUm honzontal-
Z component. In February 1946, these instruments were replaced by the present Sprengnether instruments.
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