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Earthquake Catalogue Compiled by B.Gutenberg and C.Richter

Catalogue compiled by B.Gutenberg and C.Richter includes information on 4158 world earthquakes for the period from 1904 to 1952. Size of datafile – 0.4 Mbyte.

Data source:
Gutenberg B., and Richter C.F.
Seismicity of the Earth and associated phenomena.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1954. 310 p.

The Catalogue is a part of the Global Hypocenter Database, prepared in the National Earthquake Information Center, U.S.Geological Survey (NEIC, USGS). The database was transmitted to the WDC for Solid Earth Physics on CD-ROM from the World Data Center on Seismology, Denver, USA.


Conventions of Data Format:
Length of logical record - 90 byte.
All decimal points are given.
Zeros and blanks are equivalent.
Homogeneous.
Data Format
Positions Code     Description
1- 5 a5 Source code - "GUTE ".
6-10 a5 Year.
12-13 i 2 Month.
14-15 i 2 Day
16-17 i 2 Hours   (Origin time – UTC).
18-19 i 2 Minutes.
20-21 i 2 Seconds.
27-33 f7.3 Latitude in degrees ("–" - south).
34-41 f8.3 Longitude in degrees ("–" - west).
42-44 i 3 Depth in kilometers.
65-68 f4.2 Magnitude.
69-70 a2 Magnitude scale,
"UK" - unknown magnitude scale.
71-75 a5 Magnitude donor,
"PAS" - Pasadena, California, USA.
87-89 i 3 Flinn-Engdahl Region Number
( Flinn et al., 1974).
 

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