TITLE: 10/28 Eve Shift: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PST), all times posted in UTC

STATE of H1: Observing at 151Mpc

INCOMING OPERATOR: Austin
SHIFT SUMMARY: Two large close earthquake plus an unknown lockloss at a highup state made relocking take quite a while. We've been locked for almost an hour as of 07:00UTC

03:10 lockloss from a 5.0 in Canada, I held us in down till the ground motion subsided (~10 minutes, then sei went back to calm at 03:21)

After the EQ, there was no light on green arms. I did a restore on the QUADS (ETM, ITM, TMS) to when we were locking for the previous lock (10/26 13:30, it barely changed the sliders) and then I tapped ETM{X,Y} in pitch a bit and then the beams appeared and increase flashes took care of the rest. The COMM & DIFF beatnotes were terrible at LOCKING_ALS, 24 & 18 and the ITM Error signals looked very off, so I decided to go down to run an initial alignment at 03:47 just to hear that theres another incoming earthquake from Canada, from the same spot as previously and this ones even bigger! I decided to hold off on starting the IA till after the EQ passed.

03:53 EQ mode activated, back to CALM at 04:13

04:13 started IA, finished at 04:33

05:14 lockoss at LASER_NOISE_SUPRESSION

06:25 in Observing

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