《Y2016 SHADOW FORMAT amp; NCSN DATA》.pdfVIP

Y2000 SHADOW FORMAT NCSN DATA CODES blame Fred Klein for this document revised March 7, 2006 This shadow2000.doc file is a Microsoft word document, and is also available as an Acrobat pdf file suitable for display or printing on all computers using Adobe’s viewer, and as a text file shadow2000.txt. These documents can be found online in /klein/docs and at the NCSN/UCB data center. Shadow 2000 format is a kludge developed to store the most essential event and station data for local earthquakes in California. It is a good example of incremental growth. Its virtues are that it exists, several programs support it, and the NCSN catalog is presently in this format. Shadow format is rooted in old style HYPO71 phase cards, and is the same as Hypoinverse-2000 archive format. The phase format grew into the Hypoinverse-2000 archive format by filling in blanks and adding a summary line with the location and other event data as a header of each event. The next addition occurred when we needed places to store RTP and CUSP coda duration fit parameters and data to locate the CUSP archive tape and the seismograms on it. These data were put on shadow cards following each line of the Hypoinverse archive format. In 1999, the format was revised to store years as 4-digits, expand magnitudes to 2 decimal places, and group the parts of the 10-letter station codes together. The structure of a full shadow format file is as follows. Like a HYPO71 phase file, a file may contain any number of events. Events within a file are in chronological order. All shadow cards begin with a $ sign (items 2, 3, 5 and 7 below). There is one header (items 1, 2, 3) and one terminator (items 6 and 7) per event. There may be any number of stations (items 4 and 5). All formats are column oriented and there are no standard field delimiters. The FORTRAN formats below are to be used for reading the f