• Antelope Release 5.5 Mac OS X 10.8.5 2015-04-21

 

NAME

dbevents_aeic - Display seismic events and waveforms incorporating AEIC extensions to dbevents

SYNOPSIS

dbevents_aeic [-max_age max_age] [-show_detections] [-title
                title] [-pf pf] dbname [start [end]]

SUPPORT


Contributed code: NO BRTT support.
THIS PIECE OF SOFTWARE WAS CONTRIBUTED BY THE ANTELOPE USER COMMUNITY. BRTT DISCLAIMS ALL OWNERSHIP, LIABILITY, AND SUPPORT FOR THIS PIECE OF SOFTWARE.

FOR HELP WITH THIS PIECE OF SOFTWARE, PLEASE CONTACT THE CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR.

DESCRIPTION

dbevents_aeic incorporates all of the functionality of dbevents (type "man dbevents" for more information). Its command line arguments are exactly the same as dbevents. But there are numerous additional parameters possible in the parameter file. These control various additional features such as: (i) electronic voice announcement of new events, (ii) display of pop-up maps (generated by dbrecenteqs), (iii) display of AEIC Shakemaps, (iv) launching of dbloc2 to review events, (v) deletion of bad or mislocated events from QDDS, the AEIC Shakemap system and Emergency Operations Centres.

dbevents_aeic has one crucial parameter "use_aeic_extensions". If this is not defined and set to 1, the behaviour of dbevents_aeic reverts to the BRTT version of dbevents, regardless of what other parameters are set. This is deliberate and may make it practical for BRTT to adopt and maintain dbevents_aeic, and base any future developments on it.

The basis for dbevents_aeic is BRTT's 4.9 release of dbevents, written by Danny Harvey. Earlier versions of dbevents had been modified by AEIC staff including Josh Stachnik and Mitch Robinson and tailored for specific purposes. What I have attempted to do is merge these changes into the latest release of dbevents, fix any bugs, such that we only have one version of the source code to maintain and any variations can be controlled simply by setting different parameters. Numerous other features have since been added.

OPTIONS

These are identical to dbevents. The most useful ones are:

PARAMETER FILE

Program parameters are specified in the dbevents_aeic parameter file. Parameters in this file have been grouped according to function and substantially documented. All other parameter files will probably have a subset of these parameters. Parameters native to dbevents are not explained here (type "man dbevents" for more information). Instead, only additional parameters added by AEIC are described here.

Audible announcements:

Nearest Places:

Delete event from database + delete downstream from QDDS, EOC and Shakemap systems:

Review events:

Shakemaps: The following are parameters useed for displaying AEIC Shakemaps

Webmaps: The following are parameters used for displaying webmaps generated by dbrecenteqs.

BUGS AND CAVEATS

Like dbevents, dbevents_aeic sometimes hangs, and its possible that additional bugs may have been introduced

AUTHOR

Glenn Thompson
Alaska Earthquake Information Center
Antelope User Group Contributed Software
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