GEOS Data FTP Site
This site contains earthquake and aftershock data collected by the
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
General Earthquake Observation System (GEOS)
project in Menlo Park, California.
The binary data can be transferred using Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Explorer or via anonymous FTP from
smftp.wr.usgs.gov/GEOS.
Help
is available for those using command line FTP programs.
File Format Assistance
The following are provided to assist in interpreting the binary file format.
HEADER.DOC
- description of data file headers
BBFILE.C
- machine-independent C program source code for reading binary GEOS data, outputting ASCII
The following are for use on PCs only. To use, save to disk first.
GEOSDEMO.EXE
or
GEOSDEMO.EXE (ftp)
- Windows95 (98/NT4+) plotting demo for binary GEOS data
3472355P4.GAO
- sample binary GEOS file that the above plotting program uses by default
BBFILE.EXE
or
BBFILE.EXE (ftp)
- compiled PC-DOS version of C program for reading binary GEOS data, outputting ASCII
Note: BBFILE.EXE outputs only to the screen and only recognizes 8+3 filenames so
in order to use this to create ASCII files from online data sets use the syntax:
BBFILE 347235~1.GAO >> 3472355P4.GAO.TXT
where 347235~1.GAO is the DOS equivalent 8+3 filename of the binary GEOS data file,
the >> redirects the screen output to a file,
and 3472355P4.GAO.TXT is a legitimate DOS filename for the output ASCII data.
The USGS Home Page is at http://www.usgs.gov
The USGS Geologic Division Home Page is at http://geology.usgs.gov
The USGS National Strong Motion Program Home Page is at http://nsmp.wr.usgs.gov
The GEOS Home Page is at http://nsmp.wr.usgs.gov/GEOS/geos.html
The URL of this page is http://nsmp.wr.usgs.gov/GEOS/data.html
e-mail: glassmoyer@usgs.gov
or address:
Gary Glassmoyer
345 Middlefield Road M/S 977
Menlo Park, California 94025