Surfing the Internet for Earthquake Data

Provided by: Steve Malone; Last updated November 18, 1997

The following are known Internet type connections where original seismic data or seismic research information is available. See the end of the list for several other indexes to related fields. Please send e-mail to steve@geophys.washington.edu with suggested updates to this list.

NOTE:The complete SeismoSurfing index is now being mirrored for European users by ETH, Zurich at

http://seismo.ethz.ch/seismosurf/seismobig.html.

Special News Items:

Western States Seismic Policy Council's 19th Annual Conference Nov. 4 - 7 * Victoria, British Columbia

Expanded Seismosurfing Version including addresses for FTP, finger_quake bulletin boards....

Quick links to sections below:Global - California - Alaska & PNW - Inter-mountain US - Eastern US - Americas - Europe - Asia & Oceania - Volcanos - Others -

Global or composite earthquake information, research or special services

Council of the National Seismic System (CNSS):

http://www.cnss.org/

CNSS authoritative composite catalog:

http://quake.geo.berkeley.edu/cnss

Composite, "clickable", reference epicenter map (by: CIRES):

http://cires.colorado.edu/people/jones.craig/EQimagemap/global.html

Customized phase arrival-time calculator (by: USGS and University of Alaska)

http://www.giseis.alaska.edu/Input/lahr/artim.html

GSETT-3 - Center for Monitoring Research:

http://www.cdidc.org/

Center for Moniting Research FTP: ftp cdidc.org
Email AutoDRM: autodrm@cdidc.org

IRIS DMC:

http://www.iris.washington.edu/

IRIS DMC (world-wide): finger spyder@dmc.iris.washington.edu
IRIS DMC (world-wide): ftp dmc.iris.washington.edu:pub catalogs, docs, programs, station info, wave-forms
IRIS DMC (IRIS data bases world wide) mailto:autodrm@dmc.iris.washington.edu
IRIS-DMC: telnet dmc.iris.washington.edu (login: `bulletin' password: `board') general info, station info, catalogs, Spyder wave-forms.....

National Center For Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER):

http://nceer.eng.buffalo.edu/

NCEER - gopher: gopher nceer.eng.buffalo.edu
NCEER - FTP: ftp clark.eng.buffalo.edu

NOAA - National Geophysical Data Center - Earthquake Data

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/earthqk.html

USGS - National Strong Motion Program:

http://agram.wr.usgs.gov/

USGS National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC):

http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/

USGS-NEIC (world-wide): finger quake@gldfs.cr.usgs.gov
USGS NEIC ftp gldfs.cr.usgs.gov Information, waveform data from AutoDRM requests
USGS-NEIC (world-wide from USNSN): autodrm@gldfs.cr.usgs.gov - catalogs, station info, calibration info, wave-forms
USGS-NEIC: telnet neis.cr.usgs.gov (login: `qed') catalogs through searches

Swiss Seismological Service list of world-wide AutoDRM sites (originator of the AutoDRM):

http://seismo.ethz.ch/autodrm_list.html

UCSD IDA/IRIS:

http://www-ida.ucsd.edu/public/welcome.html

AutoDRM for IDA waveform data (GSE compliant): autodrm@idahub.ucsd.edu
Special local autodrm for IDA waveforms: idadrm@idahub.ucsd.edu

Reference list to seismology software available on the Internet (provided by ORFEUS):

http://orfeus.knmi.nl/other.services/software.links.html

California Institutions.

U.C. Berkeley Seismograph Station:

http://www.seismo.berkeley.edu/seismo/Homepage.html

Bay Area Government Online (ABAG) earthquake information:

http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/eqmaps.html

California Division of Mines and Geology, includes SMIP data

http://www.consrv.ca.gov/dmg/index.html

Caltech Seismology Lab::

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/seismo/seismo.page.html

Earthquake Engineering Research Center, UC Berkeley:

http://www.eerc.berkeley.edu/

EQE International (Engineering information):

http://www.eqe.com/publications/index.html

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Server at USC:

http://rccg01.usc.edu/eqdata/home.html

Humboldt State University, Geology:

http://glinda.cnrs.humboldt.edu/earthquakes/eqk_info.html

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Geologic Hazards Projects

http://www-ep.es.llnl.gov/www-ep/ghp.html

Northern Calif. Earthquake Data Center (UC Berkeley):

http://quake.geo.berkeley.edu/

Northern California Earthquake Data Center (NCEDC): finger quake@quake.geo.berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley (northern Calif): ftp perry.berkeley.edu:pub/catalogs recent and historical catalogs
Berkeley Data Center: telnet brkseis20.berkeley.edu login: bulletin password: board (fill in form and account will be e-mailed to you)

Public Seismic Network (San Fransisco area):

http://psn.quake.net/

Southern California Earthquake Center@Caltech (SCEC):

http://www.scecdc.scec.org/

U.C. Santa Barbara Institute for Crustal Studies:

http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/

Univ. of Southern California, Earth Sciences:

http://www.usc.edu/dept/earth

Southern California latest catalog: finger quake@scec.gps.caltech.edu
Southern California data:ftp://scec.gps.caltech.edu:pub earthquake catalogs, weekly reports, selected maps
SCEC special login: telnet scec.gps.caltech.edu, login: bulletin (choose the "a" option from the menu, fill in form and account will be e-mailed to you). Accounts are restricted to users interested in phase arrival and waveform data.

Southern California Earthquake Center@UCLA (SCEC):

http://scec.ess.ucla.edu/

Stanford University:

http://pangea.stanford.edu/~brian/seismo.html

UCSD ANZA and other network:

http://www-ida.ucsd.edu/ANZA/home.html

USGS Menlo Park (northern Calif):

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/

USGS-Menlo Park (northern Calif.): finger quake@quake.wr.usgs.gov
USGS-General Earthquake Observation System (GEOS) WEB page: http://agram.wr.usgs.gov/GEOS/geos.html
E-mail USGS-Menlo Park (northern Calif):quake@andreas.wr.usgs.gov - Uses special format to get catalogs only

USGS, Pasadena Field Office:

http://www-socal.wr.usgs.gov/

Institutions in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.

Alaska Tsunami Warning Center:

http://www.alaska.net/~atwc

Univ. of Alaska, Geophysical Institute:

http://www.giseis.alaska.edu/Seis/

Univ. of Alaska (Alaska):finger quake@giseis.alaska.edu

Oregon State University:

http://quakes.oce.orst.edu/Geophysics.html

Univ. of Washington, Geophysics:

http://www.geophys.washington.edu/

Univ. of Washington (Wash. Oregon):finger quake@geophys.washington.edu
Univ. of Washington (wash., Oregon): ftp ftp.geophys.washington.edu:/pub/seis_net catalogs, station info, maps (PS, GIF)

Institutions in the inter-mountain US

Albuquerque Seismology Lab (USGS):

http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/

Albuquerque Seismology Lab (USGS): ftp aslftp.cr.usgs.govASL information

Univ. of Arizona (SASO):

http://www.geo.arizona.edu/saso

Boise State University, ID:

http://hades.idbsu.edu/

Univ. of Colorado - Dept. of Physics (Geophysics Group):

http://tagg.colorado.edu/geophysics.html

Montana Bureau of Mines Network - Catalog, Finger:

http://markov.mtech.edu/quake.html

finger quake@mbmgsun.mtech.edu

New Mexico Tech - Geophysics Program:

http://griffy.nmt.edu/Geop/homepage.html

Univ. of Nevada Reno:

http://www.seismo.unr.edu/

Univ. of Nevada (Nevada): finger quake@seismo.unr.edu

US Bureau of Reclamation (WY, CO):

http://www.seismo.usbr.gov/seismo/eqinfo.html

US Bureau of Reclamation (Wyoming & western Colorado: finger quake@info.seismo.usbr.gov

Univ. of Utah (UUSS):

http://www.seis.utah.edu/

Univ. of Utah (Utah): finger quake@eqinfo.seis.utah.edu
U. of Utah Seismograph Lab ftp ftp.seis.utah.edu:/pub/DATA_REQUESTS Catalogs and other information.

Institutions in the Eastern US

Harvard University Seismology:

http://www.seismology.harvard.edu/

Harvard University ftp saf.harvard.edu CMT catalogs, other data

Indiana State Univ. "IndiSeis":

http://www.indstate.edu/gga/recent/index.html

IRIS Headquarters:

http://www.iris.edu/

LDEO Colombia U.:

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/

Lamont Cooperative Seismic Network: finger quake@ldeo.columbia.edu
LDEO/NCEER: ftp ldeo.columbia.edu manuals, programs, strong motion waveforms
NCEER/LDEO Strong Motion Net: telnet duke.ldeo.columbia.edu (login: `strongmo' passwd: `nceer') strong motion data, programs, manuals

University of Memphis - Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI):

http://www.ceri.memphis.edu/

CERI recent catalog:finger quake@elrond.ceri.memphis.edu

Univ. of Michigan, "MichSeis":

http://www.geo.lsa.umich.edu/MichSeis

MIT Earth Resources Lab:

http://www-erl.mit.edu/

Oklahoma Geological Survey Observatory:

gopher wealaka.okgeosurvey1.gov

Saint Louis University:

http://www.eas.slu.edu/Earthquake_Center

St. Louis Univ. (central US): finger quake@quake.eas.slu.edu

Princeton University:

http://geo.princeton.edu/

Puerto Rico Seismic Network, University of Puerto Rico:

http://rmsismo.upr.clu.edu/

Purdue University - Geophysics Department

http://www.geo.purdue.edu/

University of Tennessee (Eastern Tennessee Seismic Network):

http://tanasi.gg.utk.edu/

University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics - Earthquake Studies:

http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/eq.html

Virginia Tech Geological Sciences:

http://www.geol.vt.edu/outreach/vtso/

Virginia Tech VTSO (Southern Appalachia): finger quake@vtso.geol.vt.edu
Virginia Tech (VTSO) ftp vtso.geol.vt.edu Bulletins, wave-forms, and other info

Washington University, Saint Louis, MO (Seismology):

http://levee.wustl.edu/seismology/seis.html

Weston Observatory of Boston College:

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/wesobs

Weston Observatory - New England Seismic Network catalog: finger quake@seismoeagle.bc.edu

Western Hemisphere Institutions (outside the US)

Canada

Canadian National Earthquake Hazards Program:

http://www.seismo.nrcan.gc.ca/

Canadian National Seismograph Network: finger -l quake@seismo.nrcan.gc.ca
Canadian Nation Net CNSNDC ftp seismo.nrcan.gc.ca Information, waveform data from AutoDRM requests
Canadian National Seismological Data Centre: autodrm@seismo.nrcan.gc.ca - wave-forms, station info, catalogs

Lithoprobe Seismic Processing Facility, Canada:

http://www.litho.ucalgary.ca/

Pacific Geoscience Centre - Western Canadian National Earthquake Hazards Program:

http://www.pgc.nrcan.gc.ca/seismo/table.htm

Southern Ontario Seismic Network (SOSN):

http://www.gp.uwo.ca/

Simon Fraser University, BC Canada - Custom earthquake map:

http://hoshi.cic.sfu.ca/quake.html

Chile

Dpto. de Geopfisica Universidad de Chile:

http://www.dgf.uchile.cl/sismologia.html

Colombia

OSSO - Observatorio Sismologico del Sur Occidente, Cali, Colombia

http://osso.univalle.edu.co/

Costa Rica

Observatorio Vulcanologico y Sismologico de Costa Rica. OVSICORI-UNA:

http://www.una.ac.cr/ovsi

Mexico

Instituto de Geofisica, UNAM:

http://tlacaelel.igeofcu.unam.mx/Sismo.html

Regional Centers

Regional Center for Seismology for South America (CERESIS):

http://www.dgf.uchile.cl/ceresis.html

Middle America Seismograph Consortium (MIDAS):

http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/midas/midas.html

SALSA (Scientific ALliance for South America):

http://www.dgf.uchile.cl/salsa.html

European Institutions

Belgium

Royal Observatory of Belgium -Seismology:

http://www.oma.be/KSB-ORB/SEISMO

Czech Republic

Czech Geophysical Institute, Prague, Czech Republic:

http://seis.ig.cas.cz/

Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic:

http://seis.karlov.mff.cuni.cz/

Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic:

http://www.ipe.muni.cz/

Finland

University of Helsinki, Institute of Seismology

http://www.seismo.helsinki.fi/1.html

Northern European recent earthquake catalog: finger dbank@smo1.helsinki.fi

France

GEOSCOPE Data Center of IPGP:

http://geoscope.ipgp.jussieu.fr/

GEOSCOPE Data Center, France: ftp geoscope.ipgp.jussieu.frwave-forms

Reseau SISMALP, Observatoire de Grenoble, France:

http://www-lgit.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr/lgit/obsgeo/sismalp/sismalpuk.html

Catalog of recent regional earthquakes: finger sismalp@lgit.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr
FTP site for programs:ftp://ftp-lgit.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr/pub/lgit/sismalp

Reseau Sismique Provance, Marseille, France:

http://vmesa17.u-3mrs.fr:10081/~ms422aww/LG2.HTM

Reseau National de Surveillance Sismique, France (ReNaSS):

http://renass.u-strasbg.fr/

Tres Grande Resolution Sismologique, Universite de Nice, France (TGRS):

http://raymonde.unice.fr/

Germany

GEOFONE data center (Germany) - Bulletin board:

telnet st8.gfz-potsdam.de (login: `gopher' password: `geofon' IRIS GOPHER interface only with catalog and wave-forms

Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt; Institut fur Meteorologie und Geophysik:

http://www.geophysik.uni-frankfurt.de/geophys_en.html

Institut fur Geophysik (GERESS), Bochum, Germany

http://www.geophysik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/

Seismic Data Analysis Center (SDAC), Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Hannover, Germany

http://www-seismo.hannover.bgr.de/

Univ of Karlsruhe - Geophysical Institute:

http://www-gpi.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/

University of Muenchen, Seismology Group (Germany):

http://www.geophysik.uni-muenchen.de/groups/seismolo/seismology.htm

Greece

Greek National Observatory of Athens - Geodynamic Institute:

http://www.gein.noa.gr/

Hungary

GeoRisk Ltd., Budapest (seismicity and earthquake hazards):

http://georisk.seismology.hu/

Seismological Observatory, Hungarian Academy of Sciences:

http://www.seismology.hu/

Iceland

Icelandic Meteorolgical Office, Department of Geophysics:

http://www.vedur.is/ja/loki/jar_engl.html

Ireland

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Geophysics:

http://www.geophysics.dias.ie/

Italy

International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Earth Group), Trieste, Italy (ICTP)

http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~aoudia

The Genoa University Seismological Group (North Western Italy):

http://www.dister.unige.it/geofisica

Gruppo Nazionale per la Difesa dai Terremoti (CNR):

http://emidius.itim.mi.cnr.it/GNDT/home.html

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica, Italia (MedNet, Italian Telemetered Seismic Network, and other):

http://www.ingrm.it/

Istituto di Ricerca sul Rischio Sismico, Milano e Istituto per le Tecnologie Informatiche Multimediali, Milano:

http://emidius.itim.mi.cnr.it/DOM/home.html

Servizio Sismico Nazionale, Italia (National Seismic Service of Italy):

http://www.dstn.pcm.it/ssn/index.html

Osservatorio Geofisico Sperimentale di Macerata, Italy:

http://www.geofisico.wnt.it/

The Netherlands

Network of Autonomously Recording Seismographs - NARS, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

http://www.geof.ruu.nl/~nars

ORFEUS Data Center (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute - KNMI):

http://orfeus.knmi.nl/

ORFEUS data center - Netherlands:http://orfeus.knmi.nl/ODC_Data/odc.online.html Waveform data, SPYDER wave-forms
ORFEUS AutoDRM: autodrm@knmi.nl

Norway

NORSAR (Research Council of Norway):

http://www.norsar.no/

Russia

Moscow IRIS Data Analysis Center (MDC):

http://home.synapse.ru/eng

Russian Academy of Sciences. Planetary Geophysics. Moscow, Russia:

http://www.wdcb.rssi.ru/

Slovenia

Geophysical Survey of Slovenia:

http://www.sigov.si/ugf/ang/gf.html

Spain

Instituto Andaluz de Geofisica, Spain

http://www.ugr.es/iag/iag.html

Instituto Geografico Nacional (IGN) - Madrid, Spain:

http://www.geo.ign.es/

Switzerland

Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zurich (Europe and world-wide catalogs and maps):

http://seismo.ethz.ch/

AutoDRM, E-mail to: autodrm@seismo.ifg.ethz.ch - catalogs, station info, wave-forms

Turkey

Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute (Turkey):

http://sismoloji.koeri.boun.edu.tr/

United Kingdom

U of Bristol Earthquake Engineering Research Centre:

http://www.fen.bris.ac.uk/civil/eerc/eerc.html

British Geological Survey, Global Seismology Research Group:

http://www.gsrg.nmh.ac.uk/gsrg.html

Edinburgh, Scotland (very slow for US users):

http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/quakes/quakes.html

Institutions in Asia and Oceania

Australia

Australian National University, (RSES Seismology):

http://rses.anu.edu.au/seismology/seismology.html

University Of Queensland Advanced Centre for Earthquake Studies:

http://shake2.earthsciences.uq.edu.au/

Japan

Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo:

http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

ERI-POSEIDON (Japan): telnet taka.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp (login: `gopher' password: `iris_guts') IRIS GOPHER interface only with catalog and wave-forms
ERI AutoDRM: autodrm@eri-ndc.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Geological Survey of Japan - Earthquake Research:

http://www.aist.go.jp/GSJ/pEQ/eq_top.htm

Kyoshin Net (K-NET) - Japan strong-motion data center of NRI for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention

http://www.k-net.bosai.go.jp/

Fundamental Research on Earthquakes and Earth'S Interior Anomalies- (Freesia) of NIED, Japan - broad-band network:

http://argent.geo.bosai.go.jp/freesia

National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED), Japan - home page:

http://www.bosai.go.jp/center/

Urgent Earthquake Detection and Alarm System (UrEDAS) - Japan:

http://www.rtri.or.jp/rd/UrEDAS/UrEDAS_E.html

New Zealand

Victoria University, Institute of Geophysics, New Zealand

http://www.rses.vuw.ac.nz/seismology/seismology.html

Seismic information relating to volcanic activity.

Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO):

http://giseis.alaska.edu/

Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO):

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/home.html

Mount Erebus Volcanic Observatory (New Mexico Tech):

http://griffy.nmt.edu/Geop/erebus.html

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (USGS/HVO):

http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/hvo

Finger - Hawaii Volcano (Big Island) Observatory: finger quake@quake.wr.usgs.gov

USGS Volcano Hazards Program - Long Valley Caldera:

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/VOLCANOES/LongValley/index.html

Yellowstone Caldera seismicity - Univ. of Utah:

http://www.seis.utah.edu/HTML/YPSeismicityMaps.html

Links to more general Volcanology information.

Michigan Technological University Volcanoes Page:

http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/other.html

Jonathan Dehn's "The Volcanic Homepage" (most complete listings found):

http://www.aist.go.jp/GSJ/~jdehn/v-home.htm

Smithsonian Institution - Global Volcanism Program:

http://www.nmnh.si.edu/gvp

US Geological Survey general volcano pages:

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/

Other useful references

American Geophysical Union:

http://earth.agu.org/kosmos/homepage.html

Council of the National Seismic System (US)

http://www.cnss.org/

European Geophysical Society

http://www.mpae.gwdg.de/EGS/EGS.html

Seismological Society of America

http://www.seismosoc.org/ssa

Cascade Region Earthquake Workgroup (CREW) - public-private coalition

www.geophys.washington.edu/CREW/index.html

Missouri Seismic Safety Commission:

http://www.eas.slu.edu/MSSC

Western States Seismic Policy Council (WSSPC):

http://vishnu.glg.nau.edu/wsspc.html

General Tsunami information and resources - C.E. University of Washington:

http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/intro.html

Instructions for obtaining seismic data without a WEB browser.