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SEISAN tutorial

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SEISAN Tutorial
Mehdi Maheri

Winter, 2014
 Aims of this class

● Learning some Linux commands

● Physical understanding of seismic phases
● Locating earthquakes with different types
● Calculating magnitude
● Some statistical aspects

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 What is SEISAN

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Seismic analysis system

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Set of programs → Analyzing earthquakes data

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Simple database

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 Why SEISAN?
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It's Open Source software
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It runs under all operating systems
Sun Solaris, Linux, MacOSX, windows95/98/NT/2000/vista/7

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It is simple
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Making a lot of data bank is easy
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With SEISAN it is possible using local and global
earthquakes to enter phase readings, locate events,
edit events, determine spectral parameters, seismic
moment, ...

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 We use SEISAN in Linux
✔
Like Windows, in Linux we have tree style of directories:

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 Linux & commands
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Knowledge about Linux OS
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Terminal

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Commands for navigation:
ls & cd

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Open terminal

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Run command “ ls “

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Navigate to “ seisan_new “ directory and view it's
contains by “ ls “ command

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There are directories that we have to work with them.

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 Structure of SEISAN
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In SEISAN we have important directories:

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Directories description

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 Aliases for seisan
There are some aliases command for seisan to make a
simple way to navigate in seisan directories.

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 Start!
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There is a data base, see data files. What's the
structure of data?

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It's one earthquake that recorded in many stations,
what's the numbers at the end of files?
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What do IRSC and INSN mean ?
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Actually, this is simple example of data base and
we have always many earthquakes.

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 Seisan commands
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In PRO directory we can see all commands that we
use in seisan:

Don't touch files in PRO and LIB directories

Before modifying any file, make a backup file
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 mulplt: See waveforms
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In WAV directory run command “ mulplt “ and select
waveform file

Enter waveform
file →

Press enter
→ 14
●
In new window press “ o “ to see all waveforms in file

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Click on “ menu “ at top right side of this window

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●
Now we can see waveform of earthquake that is
recorded in first station
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We can zoom in and out by clicking from left to right
and vice versa.

Press “ r “ to refresh waveform 16

 Two important key: f & t

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By pressing “ f “ we can go forward and see next
traces, to backward we have to press “ shift + b “
(remember: first refresh trace then navigate to
forward or backward)

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Press “ t “ to toggle from single trace to view all
trace.

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As said before, this file contains 30 trace, actually 10
station (not always!). Why??

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 Lets go forward
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We can select any trace by clicking on it's station
name and zoom in.
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Select closest station to earthquake, How?

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We can peak many seismic phase in one trace.
Name some phases?!
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Go forward and peak Pg phase: marking it by mouse
and pressing “ 4 “ key. For deleting a phase mark it
by mouse and press “d” key. (refresh!)

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●
Peak some phase in some station

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Maybe you are tired and want to take a rest! Press
“q” to quit from software.
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 Is it OK?
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Now you want to come back and continue working!
Do as you learned.

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What do you see?

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Is it OK?

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What does “ mulplt “ do?

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We must register all data and make a data bank for
our works!

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 MENU in mulplt
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In MENU we can see one section by name “ Regis
p “ in the left side.

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This section register the file that you choose before.
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It means that we must run “ mulplt “ for all data files
and register them one by one!
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But there is another pretty good way!!

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 Making data bank
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You know that waveform files are in WAV directory
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Initially you must make data bank for requested
events.
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What does data bank mean?

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 Making data bank
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Command that makes a place to keep your work is:
“ makerea “

→
Enter base name in UPPERCASE
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Giving start and end time

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Time interval depends on your study, don't limit
yourself! 24
 Don't remember

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Time interval depends on your study, don't limit
yourself!

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In next step type “ REA “ and press enter to make
all directories and s-files of requested events

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Now we can register our data in seisan.

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 Registering events
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First, select waveforms that you want to register by
command “ dirf waveform_files “

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There is quick way to run one command for many
file, Wildcards . What is wildcards??

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 Registering events
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Then enter data base name that you chose in
making data base: “ MOSHA “ for this example

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!!! Important: this name must be same of data base
name. Then enter operator name in 4 character.
→
Operator
name

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 eev command
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Everything is OK, now you can start working.

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In this step, seisan command that we should use is
“ eev year-month-date “

→
Seisan command line

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By pressing Enter you can move between files,
examine numbers (1-3).
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 Registering events
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To view waveforms type “ po” in seisan command
line and press enter.

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Locate event!

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