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Changelog Release Seattle 2013.200

General

Schema

added Ammplitude.unit
version increased to 0.7

database schema changes, the following script is for MySQL only and needs modifications for PostgreSQL or other database backends

    ALTER TABLE Amplitude ADD COLUMN UNIT VARCHAR(255) AFTER snr;
    UPDATE Meta SET VALUE="0.7" WHERE NAME="Schema-Version";

scmaster checks the database schema version and doesn't start if the version doesn't match the latest version. This behaviour can be disabled in scmaster.cfg with
```
    plugins.dbPlugin.strictVersionCheck = false
```

Documentation

added manpages for most of the applications
```
   seiscomp exec man scautopick
```

New apps

VS package

Added scenvelope, scvsmag + tools of the Virtual Seismologist package developed by SED and gempa GmbH. Read more here.

Changes

Applications

added option to configure the syslog facility

   logging.syslog = true
   logging.syslog.facility = local0

added processing.whitelist.agencies and processing.blacklist.agencies to global.xml to show up in scconfig

slarchive

added option to configure the buffer size, which is used to flush to disk only every n records. the default is 1000 and it can be set to 0 to write each record immediately to disk.

scimex

removed error message if a host is not reachable by the reader thread
if filter is set to false a criteria is not mandatory anymore
corrected description for scconfig (agencyID vs. agencyid)

scconfig

added option to inspect an XML inventory file: right click on an inventory file and select "Show content"

scxmldump

dump correct magnitude if cross referenced and not part of the preferred origin

scinv

added check command to apply some inventory consistency checks
```
   scinv check inv.xml
```

dlsv2inv

added consistency check when reading coefficient responses and give a warning if specified data (number of coefficients vs. blockette size) is inconsistent

added option to set network description while converting and to use placeholders (${code}, ${start}, ${end}, ${class} and ${archive})

sc2pa

ported to the API of this release

scevent

added command to set the magnitude (typically Mw) of the preferred focal mechanism as preferred magnitude

scautoloc

"sticky" default depth

Autoloc tries to find out when the depth of a location is well enough constrained by the data. If that is the case, the depth is determined by the locator. If not, the configured default depth is used. You might want to control this behaviour. Therefore, a parameter autoloc.defaultDepthStickiness was introduced. It may range between 0 and 1. In principle, 0 means always free depth, no stickiness to the default depth. This is NOT yet available. Only the other extreme of 1 was implemented now, meaning "always stick to the default depth no matter what". This was needed by Akiko To as well as Saeed Soltani Moghaddam from Iran following the large event of April 16th. If this stickiness is left unchanged, nothing in the autoloc behaviour will change. The completely free depth is on the to-do list still, with low priority.

better control of the "XXL feature" and reorganization of the respective configuration parameters into an own config group. Involves renaming of parameters.

Actually besides using the absolute amplitude to determine if a pick should be considered an "XXL pick", there used to be an additional check of the SNR hardcoded into autoloc. The SNR had to be 8 at least, which makes perfectly sense for an unusually large earthquake, for which the XXL feature is intended to be used exclusively.

The new parameters to control the XXL feature are as follows (old parameter names are still supported by deprecated):

   # Arrivals with exceptionally large amplitudes may be flagged as XXL,
   # allowing faster, preliminary "heads-up" alerts. This is the minimum 
   # amplitude.
   autoloc.xxl.minAmplitude = ...

   # Minimum SNR for a pick to be flagged as XXL. NOTE that BOTH minAmplitude 
   # and minSNR need to be exceeded!
   autoloc.xxl.minSNR = ...

   # Minimum number of XXL phases. Currently the minimum possible value is 4.
   autoloc.xxl.minPhaseCount = ...

   # XXL picks from stations beyond maxDistanceXXL are ignored (for XXL alerts).
   autoloc.xxl.maxStationDistance = ...

   # Only up to this depth XXL preliminary origins may be created.
   autoloc.xxl.maxDepth = ...

spread

added possibility to specify a template for the native spread configuration file under ~/.seiscomp3/templates/spread.conf.tpl. The default template is under seiscomp3/share/templates/spread.conf.tpl.

sdsarchive record stream

fixed retrieval if a requests starts at 00:00:00 to look also at the day file of the day before

seiscomp

added manpage support and seiscomp print env also outputs the new man path
seiscomp3.Shell and readline is only imported if requested (readline bug)

scwfparam

added option shortEventID to create shorter output directories

scqc, scqcv, scrttv, scmv

fixed channel subscriptions if detecStream is a 3 character code, e.g. BHZ

GUI event list

added optional column "FM" to show if an event has a focal mechanism solution with direct link to the focal mechanism tab

GUI maps

fixed crash if rendering maps on a very large canvas (> 2048 pixels)

Amplitude Processor

Amplitude timeWindow is now set to the processed data time window. If combining several amplitudes from e.g. the horizontals the Amplitude lower/upper uncertainty is set the difference of the average of each contribution.

scolv

Import picks: import all phases is now default