SeismoArchives
1966 Parkfield (California) Earthquake Archive:
in Memory of Dr. Jerry P.
Eaton (1926-2004)
1966 6/28
4:26 UTC, 35.87N 120.48W 1km deep, Ms=6.2, Parkfield,
California, USA
The June 27, 1966 (local time)
Parkfield-Cholame earthquake has been extensively studied, and in particular
by Jerry P. Eaton. The present archive is created in memory of Jerry Eaton, so
that
available data and
results of
Parkfield earthquake and its aftershocks can be
preserved and made freely available via the Internet.
We welcome contributions of digital files of materials relating
to the Parkfield Earthquake and
financial donations to the endowment fund so that more seismograms can be scanned
and made availableonline. In addition, an archivist is needed to edit
and maintain this Archive. If you are interested,
please contact W.H.K. Lee at <lee@usgs.gov>
(office) or <whklee@ix.netcom.com> (home).
Archivist: A volunteer is needed.
Endowment Donor: William H. K. Lee (for providing fund to scan the selected
WWSSN seismograms).
Contributors of Files: Marian Eaton, Charles R. Hutt, and William H. K. Lee.
NOTE: A
Mw=6 earthquake occurred near Parkfield
on 2004 September 28 at 17:15:24 UTC.
For more details, please visit:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/nc51147892/
1.
Seismograms of 1966 Parkfield
(California) Earthquake:
Please click the above link to view the selected seismograms of the 1966
Parkfield earthquake recorded by the WWSSN stations.
link
to compressed
tif file directory (.gz format)
2.
Selected Data Files and Scanned Papers online now:
(1) Eaton (1970):
File size: 4,056 KB in PDF format, scanned from:
Eaton, J. P., M. E. O'Neill, and J. N.
Murdock (1970).
Aftershocks of the 1966 Parkfield-Cholame, California earthquake: A detailed
study, Bull. Seism. Soc.
Am., 60, 1151-1197.
(2) Parkfield Aftershock Data by Jerry P.
Eaton: File size: 738 KB in ASCII text format.
retrieved
from the NCSN database in HYPOINVERSE format.
3. A Brief Note about Jerry P. Eaton (1926-2004)
Jerry P. Eaton was educated at
University of California, Berkeley (B.A ,.Physics, 1949; and
Ph.D., Geophysics, 1953). He
spent his entire professional career at the U.S. Geological Survey.
For more information, please click:
(1) Photo of Jerry P. Eaton: taken by Marian Eaton
in 1984.
(2)
Memorial of Jerry P. Eaton: Manuscript
version with references
by W.H.K. Lee
and W.L. Ellsworth
(3)
Memorial of Jerry P. Eaton (Published
Version):
by W.H.K. Lee
and W.L. Ellsworth,
Seismological Research Letters, 75(4),
472-474, 2004.
(4) Biographical
Sketch
for: Jerry P. Eaton for a
1-page bio-summary written by Dr. Eaton himself
for the
“International Handbook of Earthquake and
Engineering Seismology”,
edited by W.H.K.
Lee,
H. Kanamori, P.C. Jennings, and C. Kisslinger, Part B, p.
1880,
Academic Press,
San Diego, 2003.
(Last
updated: October 26, 2004)
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