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Hypocenter Object Specification

Description

The Hypocenter object is an object designed to define a Hypocenter as part of a Detection or Correlation message. Hypocenter uses the JSON standard.

Usage

Hypocenter is intended for use as part of the Detection or Correlation Formats in seismic data messaging between seismic applications and organizations.

Output

    {
      "Latitude"        : Number,
      "Longitude"       : Number,
      "Depth"           : Number,
      "Time"            : ISO8601,
      "LatitudeError"   : Number,
      "LongitudeError"  : Number,
      "DepthError"      : Number,
      "TimeError"       : Number
    }

Glossary

Required Values:

These are the values required to define a hypocenter.

  • Latitude - A decimal number that identifies the latitude of this hypocenter in degrees.
  • Longitude - A decimal number that identifies the longitude of this hypocenter in degrees.
  • Depth - A decimal number that identifies the depth of this hypocenter in kilometers.
  • Time - A string containing the UTC origin time of this hypocenter, in the ISO8601 format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.SSSZ.

Optional Values:

The following are supplementary values that may or may not be provided by various algorithms.

  • LatitudeError - A decimal number that identifies the error of the latitude of this hypocenter in kilometers.
  • LongitudeError - A decimal number that identifies the error of the longitude of this hypocenter in kilometers.
  • DepthError - A decimal number that identifies the depth error of this hypocenter in kilometers.
  • TimeError - A decimal number that identifies the error of the time in seconds.