USGS Professonal Paper 1096 - IRIS

PENNSYLVANIA
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Operated by:
Address:
Fred A. Keller
Fred Keller
508 Pershing Drive
New Kensington, p,,, 15968
(Obsolete)
Address to obtain records:
SITE INFORMATION
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Code
Station
name
Latitude Longitude Elev Date Date
(deg N. ) (deg w. ) (meters) opened closed
Foundation; geologic
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NKP New Kensington---------- 40.5597 79.7542 251 1939 1959 Red shale; Pennsylvanian.
INSTRUl1ENTATION
Seismometer Galvo Type Magnification
Code Type Component To(sec) Tg(sec) recording
"' T 0
NKP Custom--------------- N 15 0 W 10.0 12.0 Smoked paper 500 ---
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Remarks
Timing system:
Seth Thomas pendulum clock checked with WW.
SysLem response curve:
Not available.
SHORT HISTORY
NKP w", the avocation of the owner "nd operator. He developed his own seismograph system which he described in various
papers, on, of which was in th, "Sf>ismological Observatory Bulletin" of the University of Pittsburgh, 1942.
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