[Shake-dev] Problem running historical events (~1960 and older) in V3.5 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Trevor.Allen at ga.gov.au]

Hi all,

I'm trying to run ShakeMaps for some historical earthquakes, and it appears as if there is a problem in grind in interpreting the date from the event.xml.  The error is given below:

./shake -event 196002292340
Day too big - 32931 > 24853
Cannot handle date (0, 0, 0, 29, 1, 2060) at /usr/local/shake/bin/../bin/grind line 690
shake: Error in grind: 65280

Below is the event information parsed from the event.xml:

<earthquake id="196002292340" lat="30.45" lon="-9.62" mag="6.3"
year="1960" month="02" day="29" hour="23" minute="40" second="00"
timezone="GMT" depth="5.0" locstring="Agadir, Morocco" type="" />

It appears as if any event older than 50 years will have this problem.  If I set the "year" to equal 1962, the ShakeMap will run (last year 1961 worked!).

Any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks,
Trev
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