2/4/09 to 2/5/09
IRIS Board of Directors Meeting - Washington, DC
2/12/09 to 2/16/09
AAAS Annual Meeting - Chicago
3/16/09
IRIS DMS Standing Committee - San Diego, CA
3/19/09 to 3/20/09
IRIS PASSCAL Standing Committee - Socorro, NM
3/30/09 to 3/31/09
IRIS E&O Standing Committee - Washington, DC
4/8/09 to 4/10/09
SSA Annual Meeting - Monterey, CA
Seismic Monitor
Seismic Monitor allows you to monitor global earthquakes in near real-time, visit seismic stations around the world, and search the web for earthquake or region-related information. You can also view seismograms and make dataset requests via its WILBER interface.
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IRIS Notices
2008 Board of Directors Election Results
The IRIS Consortium is very pleased to announce the results of 2008 Board of Directors election. Click the link below for the results.
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Report Released from the Long Range Science Plan for Seismology Workshop
A pre-publication version of "Seismological Grand Challenges in Understanding Earth’s Dynamic Systems," the report from the September LRSPS Workshop, is now available in electronic form.
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IRIS News
01/15/2009
IRIS Holds Annual Membership Meeting
Representatives from the IRIS Member Institutions, members of the seismological community, interested students and friends, and a group of IRIS staff gathered at the Yank Sing Restaurant in San Francisco on Monday evening, December 15, 2008, for the Annual IRIS Membership Meeting.
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01/08/2009
What Should Every Citizen Know About Earth Science?
The Earth science community seeks your input by January 15 on a draft document that identifies the “Big Ideas” and supporting concepts that all Americans should know about the Earth sciences.
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11/04/2008
New Image Gallery Debuts on IRIS Web Site
Need an image of a seismometer or scientists installing instruments at a site in Antarctica for your upcoming class presentation? The IRIS Image Gallery may have just the image you need!
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PASSCAL Experiments
Map of PASSCAL Experiments
Current and Future Experiments
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High Lava Plains
Why is eastern Oregon's High Lava Plains so volcanically active? None of the accepted paradigms about crustal formation and magmatism fit eastern Oregon.
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AGAP - Antarctica’s Gamburtsev Province
A broadband seismic experiment designed to determine the mechanism driving uplift of the Gamburtsev Mountains
and what role did they play in the formation of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet?
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USArray - Flexarray Along Cascadia Experiment for Segmentation
Study of the potential links between episodic tremor and slip and 3-D structure of overriding plate in northern California through Oregon
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Recent Earthquakes
01/15/2009
M 7.4, east of the Kuril Islands
01/15/2009
M 5.6, Solomon Islands
01/15/2009
M 6.7, southeast of the Loyalty Islands
01/12/2009
M 6.0, Mid-Indian Ridge