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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 Featured News

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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Cutting Edge Science Presented at IRIS Workshop
The 19th IRIS Workshop was held June 4-6, 2008, at Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, Washington. More than 275 people from the US and numerous countries around the world attended the 3-day meeting to learn about innovative research being conducted in seismology and to exchange ideas with colleagues.
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07/17/2008
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences Honors Two Former IRIS Board Members
Thorne Lay, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and immediate past Chair of the IRIS Board of Directors, and Paul G. Richards, Mellon Professor of the Natural Sciences at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, and a member of the IRIS Board of Directors, 1988-1990, were elected to the 2008 Class of Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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07/09/2008
IRIS Welcomes New Staff Members
Rick Callender is IRIS' new Graphics and Media Specialist and Lisa Green is the new Senior Accounting Analyst.
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07/03/2008
USGS Deploys Its First Next Generation GSN Field System
The USGS Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory installed its first next generation system (NGS) at the Global Seismographic Network (GSN) station ANMO in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on June 30, 2008.
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06/27/2008
IRIS Highlights Research and Education Activities on Capitol Hill
IRIS participated in the annual Coalition for National Science Funding Exhibition and Reception on Capitol Hill this week.
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06/27/2008
Teachers Learn Geophysics and Seismology Principles
Staff from IRIS, UNAVCO and the EarthScope National Office conducted a professional development workshop for teachers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in early June.
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05/09/2008
GSN Installs First Station With Next-Generation System Design
The first fully-integrated Next-Generation Global Seismographic Network System (NGS) was installed on April 29 by Project IDA at the Piñon Flats Observatory (PFO) in Southern California.
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05/08/2008
EarthScope MT Backbone Station Begins Operation
The EarthScope Magnetotelluric Backbone station at Blacksburg, Virginia, began operating on April 6, 2008.
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