I have noticed the black color on the StationView hexagons for a little while now when motion gets strong. I do not recall when it started, however.
The quakes recently have only been strong enough to turn a nearby RShake black. This video of the recent SoCal Ojai 5.1 shows many hexagons going black. I thought black was normally used for an offline station (at least, it has not connected for a little while)
So… is black supposed to be the color in this situation? Should they remain the top-scale red? Is a deeper red needed?
Not a major issue. However, it does give the appearance that the shakes have gone offline.
Indeed, when the station “max out” the scale, they should remain in the deep red color as it indicates motions stronger than 60 um/s, and not become black.
I will pass this on to our software team so that they can take a look at what caused the issue and fix it.
We have pushed a fix for this particular situation, so now the stations on the map should not go black when the maximum scale value is exceeded, and instead remain dark red.
You can make your test whenever it’s most convenient.