Catalogue
compiled by B.Gutenberg and C.Richter includes information on 4158 world earthquakes
for the period from 1904 to 1952. Size of datafile 0.4 MB.
Data source:
Gutenberg B., and Richter C.F.
Seismicity of the Earth and associated phenomena.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1954. 310 p.
The Catalogue is a part of the
Global Hypocenter Database, prepared in the National Earthquake Information Center,
U.S.Geological Survey (NEIC, USGS). The database was transmitted to the WDC for Solid Earth Physics on CD-ROM
from the World Data Center on Seismology, Denver, USA.
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Data format features:
Length of logical record - 90 byte.
All decimal points are given.
Zeros and blanks are equivalent.
Homogeneous.
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Data Format
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| Positions |
Code |
Description |
| 1- 5 |
a5 |
Source code - "GUTE ". |
| 6-10 | a5 | Year. |
| 12-13 | i 2 | Month. |
| 14-15 | i 2 | Day |
| 16-17 | i 2 | Hours (Origin time – UTC). |
| 18-19 | i 2 | Minutes. |
| 20-21 | i 2 | Seconds. |
| 27-33 | f7.3 | Latitude in degrees
("–" - south). |
| 34-41 | f8.3 | Longitude in degrees
("–" - west). |
| 42-44 | i 3 | Depth in kilometers. |
| 65-68 | f4.2 | Magnitude. |
| 69-70 | a2 |
Magnitude scale,
"UK" - unknown scale. |
| 71-75 | a5 |
Magnitude donor,
"PAS" - Pasadena, California, USA. |
| 87-89 | i 3 |
Flinn-Engdahl Region Number
(
Flinn et al., 1974).
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Data distributed under license