NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/ca/earthqua/1633

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Path: sparky!uunet!infoserv!decwrl!morrow.stanford.edu!pangea.Stanford.EDU!andy
From: [e-mail] (Andy Michael USGS Guest)
Newsgroups: ca.earthquakes
Subject: Re: Reports Distribution
Date: 27 Jan 1993 00:29:17 GMT
Organization: Stanford Univ. Earth Sciences
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Distribution: ca
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pangea.stanford.edu

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>Is there a mail server that sends out earthquake reports for California
>(southern would be nice) automatically when posted? If there is... Please
>add "[e-mail]" to the distribution list. Thank
>you.

For Northern California the reports are available via the following two
ways in addition to on USENET.

Andy

Announcing two old services:

The Northern California, USA, and World weekly seismicity report is now
available via anonymous ftp and a mailing list.  The info on them is below.

ANONYMOUS FTP

To get the report via anonymous ftp give the command:
% ftp garlock.wr.usgs.gov      (also known as [130.118.120.28])
for the login name use "anonymous" (without the quotes)
for the password give your email address
then do the following commands
ftp> cd pub/WEEKREPS   (this puts you in the directory that contains the
                        weekly reports in a variety of subdirectories
                        described below.)
to get the most current report do the following command
ftp> cd LATEST
ftp> get weekmap.dos (gets the report)
to get the gif files or postscript files try
ftp> binary
ftp> mget *.gif  (for the gif files)
ftp> mget *.ps.Z (for the raster postscript files compressed)

To get individual files or past reports read the descriptions below
and use the get commands you need.

The pub/WEEKREPS/README file:

These directories contain the weekly seismicity reports and
maps for Northern California, the US, and the World.  Each
weeks reports are in a subdirectory named for the day the
report was stored.  The name is of the form yymmmdd, where
yy is the last two digits of the year, mmm is a three letter
code for the month (e.g. Jan), and dd is the date.  Note that
this date will be after the end of the report.

NOTE: The most recent directory will also be linked to the
name LATEST, so you can just give the command "cd LATEST"
to get to the most current report.

Each directory contains several files:
weekmap.dos : the weekly report in ascii

*.gif : the maps in gif format, these almost always include:
      sfbay.gif  (the San Francisco Bay area)
      cencal.gif (Central and Northern California)
      lvc.gif    (Long Valley Caldera in Eastern California)
      world.gif  (the world)
    and sometimes include:
      usa.gif (the USA).

*.ps.Z : the maps mentioned above in raster postscript format.  These
     files have been compressed with the Unix utility compress.

Remember that both the *.gif and *.ps.Z files are binary and you need
to give the binary command to ftp before uploading them.  See the
ftp documentation for details.

Occasionally other files will be included, take a look.

There is no set date when the files will be deleted.  I will try
to keep them around for a few months, but will delete them based
on my disk space requirements.  In most cases I will delete the
*.ps.Z files first, then the *.gif files, and then as late as possible
the weekmap.dos files.

For information on how to view the *.gif files see the file
in this directory called howtogif.

MAILING LIST INFORMATION:

The ascii text and the uuencoded gif files will be available via a mail list.
For now, the postscript will not be available via mail because the files
are rather large.

To subscribe to the mailing list send mail to:
[e-mail]
with the subject line: WEEKLY REPORT MAIL LIST
if you want the ascii text put this line in the body:
ASCII TEXT: <email address here>
if you want the Northern California maps in uuencoded gif format
put this line in the body of the message:
NORCAL MAPS: <email address here>
if you want the USA and World maps in uuencoded gif format
put this line in the body of the message:
USA and WORLD MAPS: <email address here>

To get yourself off the list put the word "STOP" in front of the line in
the body of the message.

So if I wanted to subscribe I would send the following message

    To: [e-mail]
    Subject: WEEKLY REPORT MAIL LIST

    ASCII TEXT:  <[e-mail]>
    NORCAL MAPS: <[e-mail]>
    USA and WORLD MAPS: <[e-mail]>

Later if I decided to quit getting the NORCAL MAPS I would send a message
with the same subject and the line
    STOP NORCAL MAPS: <[e-mail]>
in the body.

Note: use an internet email address.  People on other networks should include
an internet gateway in their address.  I don't have time to debug these,
so if you don't see anything in a week or two let me know.

These messages will be processed automatically so other info will be lost.