USGS Professonal Paper 1096 - IRIS

NEVADA
Berkeley, CA
GENERAL INFORMATION
Operated by:
Address:
University of California, Berkeley
Seismograph Station
University of California
475 Earth Sciences Building
Berkeley, CA 94720
Telephone: 415-642-3977
Address to obtain records:
A, above.
SITE INFORMATION
Code
Station name
latitude I.aagitUG8 Fl en Date Date
(deg N. ) (deg W. ) (meters) opened closed
Foandation, geol:ogic
age
(FAL) Fallon------------------ 36.4733 118.7767 1207 7/02/56 6/57 AlluvillJllj Quaternary.
(YER) Yerington--------------- 38.9883 119.1600 1335 7/03/56 6/57 Do.
INSTRUMENTATION
Seismometf'r Galvo Type Magnification Remarks
Code Type Component T (sec) Tg(sec) recording
" T
0
0
(FAL) Sprengnether--------- Z,NS,EW 2 0 2.0 Photo paper --- ---
(VER) --do----------------- Z,EW 2 .0 2.0 --do------- --- ---
Timing system:
Spring-wound chronometer.
System response curves:
Not available.
SHORT HISTORY
(FAL) established in the City Hall of Fallon, Nev.
(YER) .., established with the cooperation of the City of Yerington, Nev.
REN wa, also established by the University of California, Berkeley, in 1948, in cooperation with the University of Nevada.
This station w., given to the University of Nevada in 1963. (See NEVADA, University of Nevada.) The early records reside .t
Berkeley.
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