<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello WS users,<br><br>The DMC has released an update to our fdsnws-event service (<a href="http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/event/1/">http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/event/1/</a>). This release includes an important update to how magnitude criteria are used during the search, ultimately allowing more control for users addressing common use cases.<br><br>For most users requesting only a single magnitude or all magnitudes for selected events there is effectively no change.<br><br>For finer control of how magnitude criteria are applied, the magtype parameter will now accept the special values of “preferred” or “all”. When magtype=all the criteria are applied to all magnitude types and when magtype=preferred (the default) the criteria are applied to the preferred magnitudes regardless of type.<br><br>A full description of the interaction between the magtype, minmag, maxmag and includeallmagnitudes parameters is detailed in the Help here:<br><a href="http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/event/docs/1/help/#magnitudebehavior">http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/event/docs/1/help/#magnitudebehavior</a><br><br>regards,<br>IRIS DMC web services team<br></body></html>