Gulf of California Earthquake Resources
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Seismic Monitor
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2012 IRIS Workshop June 13-15
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Gulf of California Earthquake
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Active Earth: New Madrid
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IRIS Notices
Message to IRIS Consortium Members and Friends
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2012 IRIS Workshop - Boise, Idaho - June 13-15 - SAVE THE DATES!
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IRIS News 
05/22/2012
New Mexico High School Student Receives 2012 IRIS Science Award
The 6th Annual IRIS Science Award at Socorro High School was presented to Brittani Webb at the annual Awards Ceremony on May 9, 2012.
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05/10/2012
IRIS Welcomes New Member Institutions
A new Voting Member and two new Foreign Affiliates join IRIS.
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04/12/2012
Seismometer Testing Facility Dedicated to Former IRIS PASSCAL Program Manager
Jim Fowler, the first Program Manager for IRIS PASSCAL, was honored during a naming ceremony dedicating a seismometer test vault to him.
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03/22/2012
OBS New User’s Short Course at the 2012 IRIS Workshop
Registration is now open for the Ocean Bottom Seismometer Instrument Pool's "OBS New User's Short-Course"
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03/14/2012
Stormy Times Ahead: Impact of Solar Coronal Mass Ejection on Geomagnetic Field Detected by USArray
Researchers making use of EarthScope’s USArray Magnetotelluric Observatory take advantage of high altitude electric currents caused by a large solar flare.
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03/09/2012
IRIS PASSCAL Celebrates Career of Jim Fowler
The IRIS/PASSCAL staff recently honored Jim Fowler for his decades of service to the seismological community.
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03/05/2012
DMC Short Course at the 2012 IRIS Workshop
Registration is now open for the IRIS Data Management System short course "Web services: A powerful new method of of accessing data from the IRIS DMC."
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Recent Major Earthquakes
April 12, 2012
Gulf of California - 6.9
April 11, 2012
Off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra - 8.6
March 25, 2012
Maule, Chile - 7.1
March 20, 2012
Oaxaca, Mexico - 7.4
February 2, 2012
Vanuatu - 7.1
PASSCAL/Flex Array Experiments
Hangay Dome, Mongolia
64-station regional broadband array (20-30 km spacing) to determine crustal and upper mantle structure beneath the Hangay Dome Read more
Mendenhall Glacier Outburst
Few direct observations of the seasonal evolution of subglacial drainages exist, partly due to the logistical difficulty of instrumenting temperate glaciers where ice melts quickly enough that surface-installed instruments only remain level for a matter of days... Read more
Kilauea Array
This array will be used to investigate whether tectonic tremor accompanies slow slip events on Kilauea volcano, HI... 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
Map of PASSCAL Experiments
Current and future experiments.
