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Support for the Improved Worldwide Standardized Seismograph Network
Pages 56-60

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From page 56...
... This improved WWSSN would provide vast opportunities for new discoveries as a direct result of its upgraded instrumentation, of improved station distribution, and of the superiority of its digital data base over past data systems. The improved WWSSN should not be static but should change with the needs of the investigators in their search for new knowledge and for answers to many scientific questions.
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From page 57...
... Copying, archiving, and distribution of analog and digital data D Other expenses, including repair and supplies 680/yr l50/yr 450/yr 6l0/yr l890/yr PRIORITY II Additional required upgrading of WWSSN-conversion of 50 conventional WWSSN stations to digital recording and other needed improvements.
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From page 58...
... If these needs for information are to be met, seismological observations must be obtained from adequate national and international networks over long periods of time, and it must be a government function to acquire, process, and disseminate these data. In addition, a basic requirement of all mission agencies, and one that must be assumed by the federal government, is for a general body of scientific knowledge that can be drawn upon when needed: that is, for a broad data base built up painstakingly over the years through the work of many individual scientists in cooperation with their colleagues in many parts of the world.
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From page 59...
... The most desirable plan would be for permanent assignment of management oversight of the network to an interagency group, with all agencies that use the data providing management guidance through the group. It is essential that responsible government officials recognize that the systematic collection of worldwide seismological data is as much in the national interest as, for example, the routine acquisition of weather data.
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  • weather data
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  • earthquake prediction
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  • require earthquake
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  • risk mapping


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