
Seismometer Network
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Case in point ::
Earthquake case study
The Trinidad, Colorado Earthquakes
Around midnight on August 22, 2011, Colorado experienced its largest earthquake in half a century. The earthquake was quickly relegated to obscurity by the 5.8 earthquake that occurred about 12 hours later in Virginia.
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Case in point ::
Seismometer case study
CGS seismometer array
The CGS seismic network acts in conjunction with those maintained by the University of Colorado and Colorado State University, the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS), and the US Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC)—to provide near real-time earthquake detection.
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