J. Kissel

It's always impressive when a ~8 Mag earthquake rolls through the earth. Today's was a 7.8 magnitude, who's epicenter was in Suva, Fiji. Attached are the BLRMS of the 0.03 to 0.1 and 0.1 to 0.3 Hz bands during the quake. Seismon warned us at 2600 seconds prior, but we tried to squeeze one more measurement in. As soon as we saw it on the BLRMS, however, we switched to VERY LARGE EQ mode on the seismic systems, and diverted our attention elsewhere for ~4 hours (though we probably could have started trying again sooner than we did). Only the Beam Splitter ISI tripped, nothing else. See LHO aLOG 43863 for a more precise timeline.