美国科学院1977年出版了由美国全国研究理事会数学和物理联合会所属地震学委员会的地震台网专门小组的报告:《全球地震监视网;它的使用、潜力和支持的必要条件》。美国《新闻报道》(News Report)1977年6月第27卷7期摘登了这个报告,其中涉及世界标准地震台网(Worldwide Standard-ized Seismograph Network,简称 WWSSN)的现状,以及美国资助建立用于特殊研究目的的小型台网,摘编如下: In 1977, the American Academy of Sciences published a report by the Seismological Network’s Special Seismological Committee affiliated with the National Council of Mathematics and Physics of the National Research Council: “The Global Seismic Network; its Necessary Conditions for Use, Potential, and Support.” The report of the News Report of the United States of America, Volume 27, Number 7, June 1977, which covers the current status of the Worldwide Standard-ized Seismograph Network (WWSSN) and the U.S. funding to establish Special research purposes of small network, excerpts are as follows: