Earthquake Net 2-2-2

                      E Actual classroom lectures, including downloadable graphics.
                      0 A forum for asking questions (sort of a seismology homework hotline).
                      N Email addresses for university lab scientists.
                      N A list of ongoing earthquake research.
                      0 Lists of earthquake publications.
                      N Other hitemet stops or geological information web sites.
                      0 Lists of places to get Intemet software.
                      N A tour of the Seismological Lab.
                      0 Photos of recent quakes in Califon-da and Japan.
                      Also, if you felt that bump in the night, there's an on-ffiw form for reporting earthquakes.
                      All of this is free and most of the information, maps and photos are capable of being down-
                loaded to a personal computer.  It's free because the Union Pacific Foundation picked up the tab for
                creating the service.  Students Russell Brigham and Doug Ring set the page up and maintain the
                information.
                      This eruption of data can be accessed at httpllaww.seismo.unr.edu.
                      Details: Louie, 784-4219.

                                   Date:     June 28. 1996
                                   Contact-  Fo@h Greaves
                                             Jerry L. Miller                                                        (Mwmmt)



                                          Find out what's really shaking

                                                     on the university Net

                                   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                                        RENO  -  Some@g  went  bump  in  the  night.  Was  it  an   earthquake?   How   can
                                   you find out at 2 a.m.? It's simple.  Get on your computer and zip through the
                                   Intemet to the Mackay Sdiool of Mines' Seismological Lab home page.
                                        There you can find out where the latest earthquakes were centered, how
                                   strong they were and when they hit.  There's even a moving picture of the tab's
                                   heficorder, which etches out those nervous spidery lines that show a quake's
                                   magnitude.                                                                             'A tm@6640
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                                   It could be a scientist in Australia or light sleeper in Caliente,  Nev.  (Better  known q tt ivrik

                                   and much larger seismic research centers fike Cal-Tech and the US Geological
                                   Survey site in Menlo Park, Calif., get  only  a  couple  thousand  more  hits  a  week.)
                                        Some of those seismo watchers just breeze in  and  check  out  the  earthquake  log
                                   and leave.  Others download information to their own computers.  For instance,
                                   from April 12 to June  19  the  Seismological  Lab  reported  88,234  files  were  down-
                                   loaded - that's 75,839,985 bytes of information.
                                        "This is a way for us to reach out to  the  cor=unity,'  says  associate  professor
                                   John Louie.  'A-nd it's a great educational tool for the public  and  students.  Teachers
                                   can download our files to their computers and use them in class at no charge.
                                   We've only been up and running for a few months, so we're not well-known
                                   among  Nevada  teachers.  We've  had  high  @ool  students  from  Colorado   asking   us
                                   some really tough questions.  That's one of the neat things  about  the  Net,  there  are
                                   no political boundaries.  Students in Singapore can use us jus            students     in
                                   Nevada."                                                       1- t@@ @ @
                                        Among the information available  is  a  list  of  frequently  asked  questions  and
                                   answers the layman can understand.  Questions like: 'Why does Nevada have
                                   earthquakes?" And, 'Will Califon-da fall into  the  ocean?"  Tne  answers:  'Nearly  all
                                   the mountain ranges in the state are growing,  one  earthquake  at  a  time.'  And,  'No
                                   ... the motion is for westem California to move north  along  the  coastline,  not  into
                                   the ocean."
                                        Also at the university's seismo home page are:
                                        0 Maps of quakes and faults.
                                        0 A brochure on quake survival.
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