USGS Professonal Paper 1096 - IRIS

MASSACHUSETTS
Weston
I'IA
GENERAL INFORMATION
Operated by:
Address:
Weston Observatory, Boston College
Weston Observatory
Concord Road
Weston. MA 02193
Telephone: 617-899-0950
Address to obtain records:
A, above.
SITE INFORMATION
Code
Station name
Latitude Longitude Elev Dale Date
(deg N. ) (deg W.) (meters) opened closed
Foundation; geologic 'Ke
FLR Fall River-------------- 41. 7167 71.1215 52 3/24/75 Open-- Glacial deposits; Pleistocene.
QUA Quabbin----------------- 42.4566 71.3738 20] 5/07/77 --do-- Fine-grained schist; Ordovician.
WES Weston------------------ 42.3847 71.3221 60 12/1930 --do-- Metavolcanics; Precambrian.
INS~~~NTATION
Seismometer Galvo Type Magnification
Code Type Component To(sec) Tg(sec) recording .t T 0
Remarks
FLR Hall-Sears 10-------- Z 1.0 --- Develocorder 50 K Telemetered to WE'.
QIlA --do----------------- 7 ] 0 --- ---se------- l§Q K 1)9.
WES Benioff 1051--------- Z ] . a .75 Photo paper- 50 K WW'SSN.
Benioff 1101--------- NS,EW 1.0 .75 ---do------- 50 K Do.
Sprengnether--------- Z,NS,EW 15.0 100 a ---do------- 3 K Do.
Timing system:
WWSSN standard added .t WES
System response curves: WES--see figure 1, p. 363. Others available from station.
SHORT HISTORY
Weston CoUege Seismic Station began operating in 1930 with , Bosch-Omori recorded on smoked paper. The instrumentation
." , changed to Weichert .nd then, in 1936, to • three-component Benioff system. In 1949 the station was moved 300 m to the
newly established Weston Observatory site. The WWSSN equipment .., installed in December 1961, and several months later the
New England Seismic Network was initiated. The Observatory no. runs stations in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire Part gt this 'T9rk is suppe£tes 13) llSGS grants.
The Observatory contributes to the Northeastern United States Seismic Network bulletin.
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