USGS Professonal Paper 1096 - IRIS

TENNESSEE
Mempnls, IN
GENERAL INFORMATION
Operated by:
Address:
Memphis State University
Department of Geology
Memphis State UniversiLy
MemphIs, IN 38152
Telephone: 901-454-2177 and 454-2178
Address to obtain records:
A, above.
SIIE IN!ORltA:IION
Code
Station
name
Latitude Longitude Elev Date Date
(deg N ) (deg W ) (meters) oI!ened clos~d
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Foundation; geologic
age
tlET Memphis----------------- 35.1231 89.9258 93 11/16/73 Open-- Loess; Pleistocene.
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INSTRUMENTATION
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Seismometer Galvo Type Magni fication
Cude T~I~e Comuonent T (sec}
0
T ( sec)
g
recording at T
c
MET Sprengnether 5-5100-- Z,NS,EW 30 0 0 .78, 0 77, Visual, I K ---
0.73 photographic.
Remarks
Timing system: S~rengnether TS-I00 c9':stal ctlronometer checked with WWV.
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System response curves:
Not available.
SHORT HISTORY
MET wa, established to supply information about the area after publ ic concern arose over the classification of MemphIS ,n
risk zone 3. The vertical unit w", the first to be installed, followed by the horizontal s in July 1975. Photo records were sent
to Oxford, Miss. , read, and then stored there. They ace now stored at Memphis State University.
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