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USGS CMG "Ports" Definition

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This provides Infobank' port information details Port

  • Port information occurs in the CMG InfoBank as:
    • metadata -- information about departures from and arrivals into ports.

  • InfoBank port file names:
  • A "time" key is associated with each record for correlation with other information datasets.

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