The "Manual of Seismological Observatory Practice" is available
in PDF format at this location:

http://caldera.wr.usgs.gov/msop/index.html


The Manual of Seismological Observatory Practice arose from a resolution of the 
United Nations Economic and Social
Council, which was laid before the Committee for Standardisation of Seismographs 
and Seismograms of the International
Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior. This Committee 
met at Unesco House in Paris from March 12
to 15, 1963, and specified the general requirements of the Manual as follows: 
 i. It would act as a guide for governments in setting up or running 
seismological networks. It would therefore include a
selection of designs for recording stations, and suggestions for staffing and 
organisations both at the recording points and at
a central office 
 ii. It would contain all necessary information on instrumentation and 
procedure, to enable the station to fulfil normal
international and local functions. 
 iii. It would not contain any extensive account of the aims or methods of 
utilising the seismic data, as these were in the
province of existing textbooks. 

Introduction

The Manual of Seismological Observatory Practice was published in September, 
1979 by World Data Center A for Solid
Earth Geophysics as Report SE-20. The Manual's editor was P.L. Willmore of the 
Institute of Geological Sciences,
Edinburgh, Scotland. The World Data Center A for Solid Earth Geophysics was a 
unit of the U.S. Department of Commerce,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Data and 
Information Service in Boulder, Colorado. The
Manual has been out of print for many years and is still a standard reference 
work for seismologists. To make the Manual
available again, we have provided this online version. The 159 pages of the 
manual were scanned by Mrs. Willie Lee, the
resulting 159 TIF files were placed in ten Microsoft Word files by Dr. Willie 
Lee to provide continuity of page numbers. The
Word files were converted to Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) files, 
hyperlinks were added, and this html
front-end was created by Michael Diggles.


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