Description / Table of Contents:
PRELIMINARY PREFACE TO NMSOP-2
Ten years have passed since the first printed edition of the IASPEI New Manual of
Seismological Observatory Practice (NMSOP 2002). Some 2,000 hard copies are currently in
use in more than 100 countries at seismological observatories, data and analysis centers, in
teaching, research, and field applications, national and international seismology training
courses, or by private enterprises and individual scientists. In 2006, Seismological Press
Beijing published a two-volume hard cover edition in Chinese. In 2010 the Badan
Meteorologi Klimatologi dan Geofisika (BMKG) in Jakarta, with support of the Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA), published the first 3 Chapters of NMSOP in
(Bahasa) Indonesian language. Three more Chapters are currently being translated and
scheduled for publication in 2012. The first four Chapters have been translated into Turkish,
with more being in preparation, and Russian translations of several NMSOP Chapters are
used at seismological observatories and analysis centers in Russia and other countries of the
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) already since 2006.
Such global adaptation and use signals a growing demand for the kind of information
provided by the NMSOP and time for a rigorous update. NMSOP-2 will be published as a
pure electronic edition. It is again the result of a great cooperative international effort: 73
authors from 18 countries have contributed to (or are still working on) it. More than 70
experts from 20 countries provided peer reviews, and Dr. Siegfried Wendt, himself author and
co-author of several contributions to this Manual, has compiled a long-period filtered
teleseismic broadband record section of the Collm (CLL) observatory in Germany, which now
embellishes the front cover page of NMSOP-2. In this spirit, with this aim, the NMSOP needs
to be maintained and further developed under the auspices of IASPEI and its Commission on
Seismological Observation and Interpretation (CoSOI). Only then is it assured that the
seismological community can always refer to an up-to-date and IASPEI-authorized guidance
in observatory practice in the widest sense of modern applications [...]
Edition:
2nd ed.
URL:
http://nmsop.gfz-potsdam.de
Language:
English
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