IRIS News

03/08/2013
IRIS PASSCAL Staff Makes the News
Two recent stories, published by different New Mexico-based papers, highlight the work conducted both globally and locally by staff of the IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center.
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03/05/2013
US Senator Martin Heinrich Visits IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center
New Mexico's newest member of the United States Senate, Martin Heinrich, recently toured the IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center at New Mexico Tech.
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03/04/2013
Waves Generated by Russian Meteor Detected Crossing the US
An extensive network of stations with seismometers and air pressure sensors detected the blast waves from the terminal burst of the meteoroid near Chelyabinsk as these waves crossed the US on Friday morning, February 15, 2013.
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02/18/2013
EarthScope’s USArray Featured in Petroleum Industry Publication
The February issue of EXPLORER, a publication of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, summarizes the goals and accomplishments of USArray.
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02/15/2013
Resources on North Korean Nuclear Explosion Now Available
IRIS has created a special web page for this event that provides direct links to and images of data and materials available from IRIS programs and preliminary research results from the seismology community.
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02/14/2013
Apply by March 31 to Participate in the Upcoming Advanced Studies Institute
The workshop “New Frontiers in Geophysical Research: Bringing New Tools and Techniques to Bear on Earthquake Hazard Analysis and Mitigation” will be held during July in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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01/30/2013
IRIS PASSCAL Supports Fluvial Seismology Research in Grand Canyon
Researchers at the University of New Mexico and New Mexico Tech investigate how seismology can address fluvial transport of water and sediment to better understand how landscapes evolve and how to best manage water resources.
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Recent Major Earthquakes

February 15, 2013
Russia - 0.0

February 12, 2013
North Korea - 5.1

February 6, 2013
Solomon Islands - 8.0

January 5, 2013
Southeastern Alaska - 7.5

December 10, 2012
Banda Sea - 7.1

Full Lists of Recent Earthquakes

PASSCAL/Flex Array Experiments

UOSOS13
As part of the Cascadia Initiative Expedition Team educational and outreach effort we are installing seismometers in local schools to assess ground amplification... Read more

Beardmore
We propose to conduct a suite of experiments to study spatial and temporal variations of basal conditions beneath Beardmore Glacier, an East Antarctic outlet glacier that discharges into the Ross Sea Embayment... Read more

NELE
Passage of the EarthScope TA stations across the Mississippi Embayment (ME) provides an opportunity to investigate lithospheric structure associated with active deformation and an ancient, major, intracratonic rift... Read more

Aluetian_2012
We will be deploying a dense network of broadband seismic and infrasound sensors and meteorological stations to record the persistent long period (LP) energy being generated by the volcano... Read more

Map of PASSCAL Experiments
Current and future experiments.

EarthScope / USArray Status

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