Project Goal

June 4th, 2010

Goal of My Project:

     There is a limited amount of seismic data from the early 1900s and fortunately, the Harvard station has been continuously recording data for the past 80 years.Over the summer I will be cleaning and digitizing old seismograms from the Harvard seismic station dating back to the 1930s. Because there is not much information about these past earthquakes, it will be difficult to pinpoint their exact depth and location because you need three seismographs to determine this data. To help with this problem, I will be creating a database of current earthquakes recorded by the Harvard station to see if there is anything characteristic of depth or location for certain teleseismic traces recorded by the station. In addition to learning more about single station analysis, the digitization of these seismograms will add to the current database making more information available to the public for seismic analysis.