Event Name: Sierra Madre, California Earthquake
Event Date: 06/28/1991, 14:43 UTC (06/28/1991 07:43 AM PDT)
Event Identification: 19910628_1443
Recorder Type: Kinemetrics SMA-1, CRA-1

Data Organization and Format ||  Downloads ||  Tables

Data Organization and Format

The June 28, 1991 14:43 UTC Mw 5.6 Sierra Madre, California Earthquake data recorded by the USGS National Strong-Motion Network (NSMN) are available via the NSMP ftp server in the folder (directory) "19910628_1443" (https://ca.water.usgs.gov/nsmp/19910628_1443).    The time series provided are available in uncorrected acceleration, corrected acceleration, corrected velocity, corrected displacement, response spectra (relative displacement, relative velocity, pseudo-velocity, and absolute acceleration), and Fourier amplitude spectra of corrected acceleration.  All of the data are in SMC format.

In a departure from previous file-naming conventions (where for a particular channel the different the time series data all had the same filename, and thus required separate directories for each data type), the file names for the data have the following form:

where 'RRRR' is the four-digit recorder serial number (including leading 0's), 'c' is the channel number of the recorder ('a' corresponds to channel 1, 'b' to channel 2 , etc), the '_x' is used to identify the data type, and the suffix refers to the data format (rs2 and fs1 are valid SMC format types recognized by the BAP processing program.

The data are stored in two directories: uncorrected (only uncorrected acceleration) and corrected (all of the corrected and processed data, including acceleration, velocity, displacement, response spectra and Fourier ampliude spectra. This convention for organizing the data was implemented to avoid confusion between the directory names (Vol1, Vol2, … Vol6) previously used for some earlier events and the standard conventions for Volume1, Volume2 and Volume 3 processing.

Information on how the data are processed can be found in the section on DATA PROCESSING.  These data were processed using an acausal Butterworth locut filter.

Downloads

• Uncorrected data for stations 5296 (Pasadena; USGS/NSMP Office, S/N 4734) and 482 (Alhambra; LA County Public Works, S/N 316) posted on 10/07/1996
• Updated and processed data for stations 5296, 482, and 5233 (Los Angeles; 1100 Wilshire, recorders 270, 6063, 6064, and 6065) posted on 04/02/2003.

Tables

List of corrected peak ground accelerations and velocities and pseudo-spectral accelerations for available time-series data, (to obtain list as Excel spreadsheet click here ; click cancel button if get pop-up window requesting user name and password)

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This page was posted on April 02, 2003.