DON'T PANIC!

The LOCSMITH online documentation contains quite a lot of text and (hopefully) information.
But: Don't Panic! You do not need to read everything of this. The documentation is not only a User's Guide, but also a technical documentation which is intended to make the programming of the Software transparent to those (including myself) who want to further develop the code.

However, there are some things you should read in order to understand how LOCSMITH works and how you get your data into the program. I recommend to read the following sections:

  1. INTRODUCTION / READ THIS FIRST:
    Installation
    This section describes how to install LOCSMITH - a quite simple procedure.
  2. THEORY:
  3. TUTORIAL:
    Physcal Units
    A table that defines which physical units are used in LOCSMITH (essentially those commonly used in seismology, and therefore essentially SI units)
    Demos
    This section describes some demo programs that show how LOCSMITH works. From this you can get an impression of what's going on.
    Seismic Data Input
    You definitely need this...
    Setting Options
    There are a lot of options, but for most of them, you can use the defaults.
    Event Location
    Once you have the data in and options set, you want to make a location out of them. This section decribes how.

The DIAGNOSTIC MESSAGES section could become important to you, since it describes the error messages and warnings LOCSMITH will return in case of problems. But I recommend not to look into these pages before the occurrence of an error... that could be too depressing ;-) (there are a lot of possible error messages in order to help you fix problems, but that does not mean that a lot of errors will actually occur!)

The PROGRAMS section contains descriptions of the calling sequence of each .m-file in the LOCSMITH package. You will not need most of these descriptions, because most routines are just subroutines.


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