Initial data from the array of 58 portable seismometers installed to record aftershocks of the February 27, 2010 Mw=8.8 Chile earthquake are now available at the IRIS DMC.
The EarthScope Automated Receiver Survey (EARS) is now implemented at the IRIS Data Management Center. Developed by the University of South Carolina as an EarthScope/USArray data product, EARS calculates bulk crustal properties at IRIS station locations using receiver functions.
New Mexico Tech selects Rick Aster, Chair of the Earth and Environmental Science Department and Principal Investigator for the IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center, as the recipient of its 2010 Distinguished Researcher Award.
The IRIS Education and Outreach Program has developed a new animation set, Seismic Signatures, that demonstrates how ground motion recorded by seismograph stations on or near Mount St. Helens volcano reveals different causes.
The Global Seismographic Network is pleased to announce that seismic station HKPS, part of the Hong Kong Observatory, has joined the GSN as an Affiliate.