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The Natural Hazards Data Resources Directory has been made available online by NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center with funding from the Institute for Business and Home Safety.

The following organization provides Earthquake data for Southeastern United States.

Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory

Martin C. Chapman, Director
Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory
Dept. of Geological Sciences
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
4404 Derring Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0420
Telephone: (540) 231-5036
Fax: (540) 231-3386
Email: chapman@vt.edu OR vtso@vt.edu
Website: http://vtso.geol.vt.edu/outreach/vtso/

The Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory (VTSO) is located on the Virginia Tech campus. The seismic network operations conducted by Virginia Tech are part of a cooperative effort to monitor seismicity in the southern Appalachian region. The VTSO operates a fully calibrated, digitally recording seismic network with stations in Virginia and southern West Virginia. Earthquake detection, location and analysis of data by members of the Southern Appalachian Cooperative Seismic Network is facilitated by rapid access to Virginia Tech data via the Internet. See the webpage for updates of current projects.

VTSO also contributes to the CNSS (Council of the National Seismic System) composite catalog, a world-wide earthquake catalog which is created by merging the master earthquake catalogs from contributing CNSS member institutions and then removing duplicate events, or non-unique solutions for the same event.

Data is available through hard copy, magnetic tape and an FTP site.

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