U.S. Geological Survey General Earthquake Observation System National Strong Motion Program

Parkfield GEOS Data

This site contains earthquake and aftershock data collected by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) General Earthquake Observation System (GEOS) project in Menlo Park, California.

The binary data are available via anonymous FTP from the National Strong Ground Motion FTP-server: https://ca.water.usgs.gov/nsmp/ in directory GEOS/PRK.

Tables

Station list

Reports

USGS Open-File Report 2004-1376: Borcherdt, Roger D., Malcolm J. S. Johnston, Christopher Dietel, Gary Glassmoyer, Doug Myren, and Christopher Stephens (2004). Acceleration and Volumetric Strain Generated by the Parkfield 2004 Earthquake on the GEOS Strong-Motion Array Near Parkfield, Calif.

Borcherdt, Roger D., Malcolm J. S. Johnston, Gary Glassmoyer, and Christopher Dietel (2006). Recordings of the 2004 Parkfield Earthquake on the General Earthquake Observation System Array: Implications for Earthquake Precursors, Fault Rupture, and Coseismic Strain Changes, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 96, 4B, S73-S89.

U.S. Department of the Interior
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The GEOS Home Page is at /GEOS/geos.html
The URL of this page is /GEOS/PRK/parkfield.html
e-mail: glassmoyer@usgs.gov
or address:
Gary Glassmoyer
345 Middlefield Road M/S 977
Menlo Park, California 94025