Cruz Chronicles III

June 27th, 2010

Pretty productive week. With a lot of help from Rob and a UNIX reference book that weighs about as much as I do, I was actually able to start writing some simple scripts. While it is only a meager victory, I am still proud. The scripts are limited, but the have helped me to speed up my tremor analysis quite a bit. Speaking of tremor, I totally think I found some triggered tremor in some of my data. I still have to check a bunch of other stations for the event, but it looks promising. After filtering, I had some nice packets of high frequency that corresponded with the peaks of the Love and Rayleigh waves. This is a good indication of tremor, but like I said, I still have to find it on all of the other stations. That will be the goal for this upcoming week, as well as continuing to work on scripting.

The personal side of things has been going well also. Last weekend I took a trip up to San Fransisco to see the city. To my surprise, it was freaking cold there. I swear that the wind did not stop blowing the whole time I was there. My roommate and I took a ferry out to Alcatraz and roamed around a bit. It was pretty cool (pun intended). Other than that I have just been relaxing while not working in the lab. I've been catching up on some recreational reading and enjoying the World Cup. What a crazy week for the US. I was totally pumped for the Ghana game yesterday, but we all know how that turned out. I think all of that vuvuzela noise was distracting our players. Is it just me, or does it sound like and entire bee hive is attacking the camera-man every time you turn on a game? Oh well, our team had a great run. Now I just need to find another team to root for. Any suggestions....other than Uruguay?