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__**March 24, 2008**__

Today I worked on the LIGO project a little more, looking at more Bluestone information and determining if there was an earthquake detected during that date. Also I found a few websites that give information about the speed of S and P waves, they can be found here. Once we have the speed of S and P waves and some data that may look like a earthquake. We then look and to see where, if any, earthquakes happened on that day. If we find one we can tehn tell if it was detected by LIGO, becuase we know the speed of S and P waves and how far away the earthquake occured.

__**March 25, 2008**__

I went back and did a little of my AGN project. That way I don't get behind while I continue this project in LIGO. I found the emission line ratio for Ha and [O III] and labeled then on the spectra. From the looks at things it appears to be a starburst galaxy due to the Ha and [O III] lines being nearly the same in energy. Once I completely do the math on this spectra I will know for sure.

__**March 26, 2008**__

Off School

__**March 27, 2008**__

Looked through the data that I got from the NCEDC website for earthquakes in the month of Feb 2006. I plan on using the higher magnitude quakes, and also the ones that are close to LIGO in Hanford, WA. There aren't many big quakes that took place, but there are a few in Alaska, which more than likely will be picked up by LIGO in Washington.

__**March 28, 2008**__

Tried to get in Bluestone, but for some reason it wouldn't accept the username and/or the password for the guest username. Without Bluestone it is hard to complete this project. Bluestone is the website where data that is taken from LIGO can be viewed by other people online. With Bluestone we can find huge spikes in the data, and hypothesis that the large spike is an earthquake. Now that we suspect there to be an earthquake we can look at the NCEDC data to see if a quake happened with in the Bluestone's graph. Knowing the speed of S & P waves we can make a guess at the approximate time the earthquake happened.