Event Name: San Simeon, California Earthquake
Event Date: 12/22/2003, 19:15 UTC (12/22/2003, 11:15 AM PST)
Event Identification: 20031222_1915
Recorder Type: Kinemetrics: Etna, K2, MtWhitney
Network Event ID#: nc40148755

Data Organization and Format ||  Download (updated 02/02/2004) ||  Tables (updated 02/02/2004)

Data Organization and Format

The December 22, 2003, 19:15 UTC, Mw 6.4, San Simeon, California Earthquake data recorded by the USGS National Strong-Motion Network (NSMN)  and Northern California Seismic Network (NCSN) are available via the NSMP ftp server in the folder (directory) "20031222_1915" (https://ca.water.usgs.gov/nsmp/20031222_1915).    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) for the USGS data, '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 amplitude 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.  Note that these data were processed using an acausal Butterworth locut filter.

Downloads

To facilitate downloading the data, the data have been compressed into PC compatible ".zip" format.  The same zip file is located in the "zips" folder in "20031222_1915/" on the NSMP ftp server, "https://ca.water.usgs.gov/nsmp/20031222_1915".  Peak values and time series data for 20 additional recorders are available as of 12/31/2003.  Adjustments were made to the filter corners of the five previously served data files, but this produced no significant changes in the peak motions.  Peak values and time series data for 17 additional recorders are available as of 02/02/2004.

Tables

List of corrected peak ground accelerations and velocities and pseudo-spectral accelerations for available time-series data, (updated 02/02/2004) (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 December 22, 2003; updated 02/02/2004.