Description
Digitized seismograms and event catalogues from a small observatory that recorded 17 thousand earthquakes, most of them too faint to feel.
Provenance
Found during a house clearance in Port Silvercombe and passed to Lazarus. The label reads ‘Disk 1 of 2’. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
767807dc19595338e4fdccc1fd11d919f3ee444ca03fd63d873081fb86ae8f69- Last verified
- Oct 19, 2026, by Vigil
- Migrated to
- CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
Reading-room copies are migrated to CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.
Cite as: Saltgate Harbour Observatory, Seismograms, Saltgate Harbour Observatory, 1977–1983 (1977–1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-03894.