<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>The EHP is migrating clients away from EIDS, with a planned shut-off date of October 31, 2013. Existing users have several options to continue receiving earthquake information in near-realtime:</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>- Realtime Feeds & Notifications</div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/">http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/</a></div>
</blockquote><br><div>- PDL, the replacement for EIDS and QDM</div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><a href="http://ehppdl1.cr.usgs.gov/userguide/">http://ehppdl1.cr.usgs.gov/userguide/</a><br>
</div></blockquote><br></div><div>- QuakeWatch servers, fed by PDL</div><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>These are essentially EIDS servers, but only provide access to a subset of the information available via PDL including earthquake locations.</div>
<div><br></div></blockquote></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The client configuration files will need to be changed to have entries like these:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> # host address of server:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> serverHostAddress = "</span><a href="http://quakewatch1.cisn.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">quakewatch1.cisn.org</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">"</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> # port number of server:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> serverPortNumber = 39977</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> # true to enable fail-over reconnect to alternate servers:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> altServersEnabledFlag = true</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> # list of alternate servers for fail-over reconnect:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> alternateServersList = "</span><a href="http://quakewatch2.cisn.org:39977/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">quakewatch2.cisn.org:39977</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">,</span><a href="http://quakewatch3.cisn.org:39977/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">qu<u></u>akewatch3.cisn.org:39977</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">"</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> # file holding server-login information:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> loginInfoFileName = "conf/LoginInfoFile.txt"</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> An authorized login is required to connect to the QuakeWatch servers; logins can be requested here: </span><a href="http://www.cisn.org/software/login" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.cisn.org/software/<u></u>login</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span></div>
<div><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> A login-information file ("conf/LoginInfoFile.txt") containing the username and password will need to be created, as documented here:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="http://www.isti2.com/QWIDS/current_dist/QWCubeOutClient/doc/QWConnParams.html#loginInfoFile" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.isti2.com/QWIDS/<u></u>current_dist/QWCubeOutClient/<u></u>doc/QWConnParams.html#<u></u>loginInfoFile</a><br>
</div></blockquote><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">If you have any questions about this discontinuation, please contact Lynda Lastowka <<a href="mailto:llastowka@usgs.gov">llastowka@usgs.gov</a>> .</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Thanks,</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Jeremy Fee</font></div></div>