<div dir="ltr"><div>Forwarding to the realtime-feed-users list, realtime-feeds is only for announcements.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>From: Steve Hakusa<br>Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 13:17:12 -0400<br><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px">Hi,</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px">I'm looking to understand the difference between the location reported in the Atom feed entry title vs that reported in the attached CAP alert headline.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px">It appears that the Atom title is an approximation of the epicenter location, represented in kilometers from the nearest large-ish city, and the CAP headline is a (frequently different) nearby city.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px">1. Can you explain how the cities are chosen in each case?</span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px">2. Is there a reason that the two are different?<div><br></div><div>The CAP headlines look somewhat inaccurate when the earthquake is far out to sea and the closest city is hundreds of kilometers away.</div><div><br></div><div>Here are a few examples, pulled from <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/4.5_week.atom" target="_blank">http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/4.5_week.atom</a> currently lists<br></div><div><div><br><font face="monospace, monospace" size="1"><entry><br><id>urn:earthquake-usgs-gov:us:20002b5q</id><br><title>M 4.9 - <b>103km SSE of Iranshahr, Iran</b></title><br><updated>2015-05-04T11:49:33.310Z</updated><br><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="<a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002b5q" target="_blank">http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002b5q</a>"/><br><link rel="alternate" type="application/cap+xml" href="<a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/detail/us20002b5q.cap" target="_blank">http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/detail/us20002b5q.cap</a>"/></font><br><br>vs us20002b5q.cap</div><div><br><font face="monospace, monospace" size="1"><headline>EQ 4.9 <b>Chabahar, Iran</b> - PRELIMINARY REPORT</headline></font><div><br></div>Similarly:<div><br></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace" size="1"><entry><br><id>urn:earthquake-usgs-gov:us:20002b3h</id><br><title>M 4.7 - <b>64km S of Pirgos, Greece</b></title><br><updated>2015-05-04T12:11:39.421Z</updated><br><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="<a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002b3h" target="_blank">http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002b3h</a>"/><br><link rel="alternate" type="application/cap+xml" href="<a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/detail/us20002b3h.cap" target="_blank">http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/detail/us20002b3h.cap</a>"/><br><br></font>vs us20002b3h.cap</div><div><br><font face="monospace, monospace" size="1"><headline>EQ 4.7 <b>Iraklion, Crete, Greece</b> - PRELIMINARY REPORT</headline></font><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Steve<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>