Museum Program Expands

 

The exhibit was expanded to include a kiosk displaying annotated seismograms of recent earthquakes and an interactive kiosk that allows visitors to access earthquake related information via the internet.

On October 6, 2000 the Travelling Earthquake Exhibit opened at the Boston Museum of Science (below). This exhibit is part of the "Powers of Nature" exhibit and will remain in Boston until March 2001. More than 1/2 million people are expected to visit the exhibit to learn about earthquakes in real-time.

For further information contact Christel Hennet at chennet@iris.edu.

The IRIS/USGS museum program continues to expand with new exhibits opening at both the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque, NM and the Boston Museum of Science in Boston, MA.

Visitors entering the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science are now greeted by a new permanent seismological exhibit (The Quaking Earth) in the entrance foyer (above). The core elements of this exhibit include the seismic monitor and two drum recorders showing global and local seismic activity in real-time. An AS-1 seismometer was added to the "Make-Your-Own-Earthquake" component to help demonstrate how seismometers work.

 

Event Catalogs at the DMC

Example of event mapping with SeismiQuery.

Data from FINGER, QED, weekly and monthly HDF files and the ISC event catalogs (going back to 1964) are now available through the DMC. Using SeismiQuerythe DMC's web-based database interfaceyou can query events based on magnitude, location, time and catalog. There is even a catalog query option (called "PREFERRED") that will filter the event list, returning only those events from the most accurate catalog available for the time period requested. In addition to receiving tabular lists, you have the option to map the events selected. With different output options, you can produce presentation-quality maps (courtesy of GMT) in both PostScript and GIF format. The map option is also available for station queries by selecting "stations" from the query list. To access this interface, visit the DMC's website: www.iris. washington.edu/IRISquery and choose "events" from the query list.

For further information contact Deborah Barnes at d.