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August 15, 2007 DART® Data

On 2007/08/15 near THE COAST OF CENTRAL PERU (13.354°S, 76.509°W) at 23:40:57 UTC, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurred. This page provides links to data collected from the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART®) buoys. The data files contain raw observations, fitted tidal components, and residual tide values. There are 2 types of data:
1) 15-second integrated values as recorded by the Bottom Pressure Recorded (BPR) or
2) Real-time water level data as recorded by the Bottom Pressure Recorder (BPR) in extended-reporting mode containing measurement types of 15 minutes, 1 minute, and 15 seconds. Real-time data have been extracted from the National Data Buoy Center.

We have also provided the computed tides, details on the harmonic tidal analysis results and spectra on 15-second data files. The source 15-second data are in pounds per square inch absolute [psia], the tidal analysis is performed on that data. The real-time data are processed in PSIA to be compatible with the data from previous deployments. All tsunami event data as observations, fitted tides and residuals here are provided in meters water column using conversion factor of 670.0 mm of water/PSIA.

On the right of the Tsunami Travel Time map below there are links to individual data files under column Data. The columns in those files are as follows: Time in Julian days from the beginning of the year, Year, Month, Day, Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Raw Observations, Fitted tidal component, and computed residuals in meters water column. We have also provided details on the harmonic analysis results under column Tide. Spectra are provided for those DARTs® whose BPR were retrieved and a complete record of high-resolution 15-second data are available at the moment.
DART data processing description. For event details please visit the 2007/08/15 Peru tsunami event page. If you have questions, please contact haz.info@noaa.gov

Tsunami Travel Time Map Near Field DARTs East Pacific DARTs North Pacific DARTs North-West Pacific DARTs West Pacific DARTs Central Pacific DARTs
Map showing active (yellow) DART® stations during the 15 August 2007 event. Roll over map to select a location from the map above to view regional plots with tsunami signal in DART® residuals. Tsunami Travel Time (TTT) Map with DART® locations produced using Tsunami Travel Time Software Information (TTT) software developed by Paul Wessel.
StationDepthLatitudeLongitudDataTidesSpectra
[m] [deg] [deg] [m][psia]
21413 5842 30.5800 152.0990 * * *
21414 5411 48.9420 178.2700 * * *
21415 4708 50.1663 171.8360 * * -
21416 5782 48.0455 163.4904 * * *
21417 5483 43.1871 157.1397 * * *
21418 5665 38.7066 148.6945 * * *
32401 4882 -19.2870 -74.7310 * *
32411 3240 4.9240 -90.6850 * * *
43412 3232 16.0310 -107.0000 * * *
43413 3468 10.8460 -100.0843 * * *
46402 4712 51.0612 -164.0021 * * *
46408 5372 49.6230 -169.8480 * * *
46410 3742 57.5025 -143.9890 * * *
46411 4265 39.4906 -127.0077 * * *
46419 2772 48.4785 -129.3593 * * *
51406 4473 -8.4890 -125.0167 * * *
51407 4718 19.6270 -156.5262 * * *
52402 5800 11.5687 154.5839 * * *
52403 4435 4.0272 145.5793 * * -
52404 5924 20.8478 132.3119 * * *
55015 3335 -46.8400 160.2540 * * *

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