Pasadena, CA 1/19/2010
Unfortunately, a major earthquake occurred Tuesday, January 12, 2010 in the boundary region separating the Caribbean plate and the North America plate. According to reports received from the scientific community this plate boundary is dominated by left-lateral strike slip motion and compression, and accommodates about 20 mm/y slip, with the Caribbean plate moving eastward with respect to the North America plate.
Please watch seismic waves from the Haiti Mag. 7.0 earthquake as they cross the USArray's (http://anf.ucsd.edu/) seismogram experiment. The blue circles indicate a seismometer moving down; red circles indicate a seismometer moving up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRIjBZheHwM&feature=player_embedded(courtesy of USArray project)
At the time of the Haiti earthquake there were 480 Quanterra Q330 USArray stations returning data out of a total number of 495 stations (15 stations considered off-line). USArray’s exceptional median data return, greater than 98% (http://anf.ucsd.edu/tools/data_return_rates/), is one more example of the undisputed performance of the Q330 data acquisition systems (http://www.kinemetrics.com/p-78-Q330.aspx) and the Antelope system software (http://www.kinemetrics.com/p-145-Antelope.aspx) in our seismic community.
For those who already are familiar with the Q330 & Antelope capabilities, we thank you for being our loyal customers. For those seeking a high-performance, ultra-low power and most reliable datalogger in our community we suggest that you consider using the Q330 & Antelope for simply this reason: it just works …and...keeps going, and going, and going...
If you have any questions or require further information, contact Kinemetrics at sales@kmi.com or your local representative.
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