10/10/08
Public Lecture (Cliff Frohlich) - Mercedes, TX
10/14/08 to 10/15/08
IRIS DMS Standing Committee - Albuquerque Seismic Lab
10/17/08
Public Lecture (Uri ten Brink) - Cleveland, OH
11/6/08 to 11/7/08
Wkshop to evaluate EARS and community needs for mantle discontinuity research using EarthScope data - University of South Carolina
11/6/08 to 11/7/08
IRIS Board of Directors Meeting - St. Louis, MO
11/9/08 to 11/14/08
SEG Annual Meeting - Las Vegas, NV
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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IMPORTANT: Timing Errors Affecting RT130s
Starting on July 31, 2008 (julian day 213 2008), the SiRF-type ublox Trimble module started to shift in time by a second. Since then, the mysterious time shifts (back and forth) continue. Read More
IRIS Featured News
Long-Range Science Plan for Seismology Writing Group Requests One-Pagers
At a workshop on September 18-19, the group charged by NSF with writing a Long-Range Science Plan for Seismology (LRSPS, http://www.iris.edu/hq/lrsps/) collected broad input on where seismology is likely to head over the next ten years. The writing group welcomes one-pagers from both workshop participants and other community members by October 10.
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IRIS Board of Directors Appoints a Nominations Committee for 2008 Elections
Elections for important positions on the IRIS Board of Directors will be held during the Annual IRIS Membership Meeting in San Francisco, California, on December 15, 2008. This year, members will elect three Directors who will each serve for three years. Members of the IRIS community are encouraged to contact the Nominations Committee with suggestions for candidates for these open positions.
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IRIS News 
09/19/2008
New Mexico Tech to Expand PASSCAL Instrument Center
Daniel H. López, president of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) in Socorro, authorized the expansion of the on-campus building that houses the IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center and the EarthScope Array Operations Facility. The new wing, scheduled for completion and occupation by early 2009, will provide laboratory and office space for PASSCAL’s Polar Program activities.
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09/16/2008
USGS Coalition Honors Representatives Dicks and Regula at Congressional Reception
Representatives Norman Dicks (D-WA) and Ralph Regula (R-OH) were presented with the first USGS Coalition Leadership Award at a congressional reception on Monday, September 15, 2008.
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09/11/2008
University Students Identify Sites for Transportable Array Stations
Over the summer, 32 students and 10 professors from universities in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas identified sites for more than 325 future Transportable Array stations in those states.
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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
10/07/2008
M 5.7, Arctic Ocean
10/06/2008
M 6.4, eastern Xizang
10/05/2008
M 5.9, central Afghanistan
10/05/2008
M 5.7, southern Xinjiang, China
10/05/2008
M 6.6, Kyrgyzstan
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