Surfing the Internet for Earthquake Data

Provided by: Steve Malone; Last updated Dec. 3, 2000

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.

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

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

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

Los Alamos Seismic Research Center, LANL, New Mexico

http://www.lasrc.lanl.gov

Montana Bureau of Mines Network - Catalog, Finger:

http://mbmgsun.mtech.edu/quakesm.htm

• finger quake@mbmgsun.mtech.edu

New Mexico Tech - Geophysics Program:

http://www.ees.nmt.edu/Geop

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.quake.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.

Wyoming State Geological Survey - Geologic Hazards Section-

http://www.wrds.uwyo.edu/wrds/wsgs/hazards/quakes/quake.html

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

LCSN at LDEO Colombia U.:

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

• 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

OhioSeis, Ohio Seismic Network--Ohio Geological Survey

http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/OhioSeis

OhioSeis, College of Wooster, Ohio:

http://www.wooster.edu/news/seismic/seismic.html

Oklahoma Geological Survey:

http://www.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://geoweb.princeton.edu

Puerto Rico Seismic Network, University of Puerto Rico:

http://rmsismo.upr.clu.edu

Purdue University - Geophysics Department

http://www.geo.purdue.edu

Univ. of South Carolina, "SCEPP":

http://www.seis.sc.edu

University of Tennessee (Eastern Tennessee Seismic Network):

http://tanasi.gg.utk.edu

University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics - Earthquake Studies:

http://wadati.ig.utexas.edu:8000

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

Cegep de Jonquiere, Quebec, Canada:

http://college.cjonquiere.qc.ca/sismo

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

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, TECHMAT station

http://sismo.uqac.uquebec.ca

Southern Ontario Seismic Network (SOSN):

http://www.gp.uwo.ca

Simon Fraser University, BC Canada - Custom earthquake map:

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

Caribbean

Seismic Research Unit - Trinidad West Indes

http://www.uwiseismic.com

Chile

Servicio Sismologico Nacional - Universidad de Chile:

http://ssn.dgf.uchile.cl

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

Laboratorio de Ingenieria Sismica, Universdad de Costa Rica

http://www2.fing.ucr.ac.cr/~lis/home.htm

El Salvador

Departamento de Investigaciones Sismologias, San Salvador:

http://www.geotecnico.com/Sismologia/1deptsis.htm

Honduras

University of Honduras - Geophysics:

http://www.geofys.uu.se/~dca/geophysics.html

Mexico

Instituto de Geofisica, UNAM:

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

Servicio sismologico Natcional - Mexico

http://www.ssn.unam.mx

Nicaragua

Instituto Nicaraguense de Estudios Territoriales - Direccion de Geofisica:

http://www.ineter.gob.ni/geofisica/home-geofis.html

Panama

Instituto de Geociencias de la Universidad de Panama:

http://www.igc.up.ac.pa

Peru

Instituto Geofisico del Peru:

http://www.igp.gob.pe/

• Insittuto Geofisico del Peru finger sismos

Venezuela

Laboratorio de Geofisica, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela

http://lgula.ciens.ula.ve

Fundacion Venezolana de Investigaciones Sismologicas (Funvisis), Venezuela

http://www.funvisis.org.ve

Regional Centers

Regional Center for Seismology for South America (CERESIS):

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

Centro Sismologico de America Central (CASC):

http://www.cepredenac.org/cnc/casc

Middle America Seismograph Consortium (MIDAS):

http://midas.upr.clu.edu

SALSA (Scientific ALliance for South America):

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

Laboratorio de Geofmsica de la Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela:

http://celeste.ciens.ula.ve

The University of the West Indies, Seismic Research Unit

http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com:6010/playingfields/kickemjenny

European Institutions

A more complete list of European/Mediterranean area seismograph network operators can be found at:

Austria

Zentralanstalt fur Meteorologie und Geodynamik, (Geophysik), Austria

http://www.zamg.ac.at/geophys_frm.htm

Osterreichischen Gesellschaft fur Erdbebeningenieurwesen und Baudynamik (OGE):

http://www.zamg.ac.at/~oge

Belgium

Royal Observatory of Belgium -Seismology:

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

Czech Republic

Czech Geophysical Institute, Prague, Czech Republic:

http://www.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

France

Centre Sismologique Euro-Mediterraneen (CSEM):

http://www.emsc-csem.org

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://sismalp.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr/sismalpuk.html

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

Reseau Sismique Provence, Marseille, France:

http://jupiter.u-3mrs.fr/~ms422aww

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

Baden-Wuerttemberg Geological Survey, Erdbebendienst:

http://www.lgrb.uni-freiburg.de/d/fach/led/led.htm

Erdbebendienst Bayern, Germany:

http://www.erdbeben-in-bayern.de

GEOFONE data center (Potsdam, Germany):

http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/geofon

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

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

German Earthquake Damage Analysis Center:

http://www.uni-weimar.de/Bauing/edac

Institut fur Geophysik (GERESS), Bochum, Germany

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

Grafenberg Seismological Observatory (SZGRF):

http://www.szgrf.bgr.de

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

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

University of Munich - Department of Geophysics

http://www.geophysik.uni-muenchen.de

Geologische Dienst Nordrhein-Westfalen:

http://www.gd.nrw.de

Univ of Karlsruhe - Geophysical Institute:

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

Geol. Institut, Abteilung Erdbebengeologie, Universität zu Köln

http://www.seismo.uni-koeln.de

Greece

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Geophysics), Greece

http://lemnos.geo.auth.gr

Athens University, Department of Geophysics-Geothermy

http://www.geophysics.geol.uoa.gr

Greek National Observatory of Athens - Geodynamic Institute:

http://www.gein.noa.gr

Institute of Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Thessaloniki

http://www.itsak.gr

Hungary

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

http://www.georisk.hu

Iceland

Icelandic Meteorolgical Office, Department of Geophysics:

http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/englishweb

Ireland

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Geophysics:

http://www.geophysics.dias.ie

Israel

The Geophysical Institute of Israel:

http://http://www.gii.co.il

Italy

Italian Experimental Seismic Network:

http://www.iesn.org

Laboratorio di Geofisica, Camerino University, Italy:

http://www.unicam.it/university/unitoper/geologia/LABGEOF.htm

The I.G.G. Seismic Network (Genoa University, Italy):

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

Friuli Experimental Seismic Network, Venezia Giulia, Italy

http://www.fesn.org

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 Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Udine

http://www.crs.ogs.trieste.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.it/ssn/index.html

Universita di Trieste, Italia (Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra):

http://www.dst.univ.trieste.it/DST/dst.s.main.html

International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (Structure and non-linear dynamics of the earth group):

http://www.ictp.trieste.it/sand

Osservatorio Geofisico Sperimentale di Macerata, Italy:

http://www.geofisico.wnt.it

Sistema Poseidon - Sicilia orientale, Italy

http://www.poseidon.nti.it

Osservatorio Vesuviano, Napoli, Italy

http://www.osve.unina.it/seismogroup.htm

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

Institute of Solid Earth Physics, University of Bergen

http://www.ifjf.uib.no/seismo/index.htm

NORSAR (Research Council of Norway):

http://www.norsar.no

Poland

Polish Academy of Sciences of Institute of Geophysics, Warszawa, Poland:

http://wwwseis.igf.edu.pl

Portugal

Instituto Geofisico do Infante D. Luis, Portugal

http://www.igidl.ul.pt

Instituto de Meteorologia, Portugal

http://www.meteo.pt/sismologia/sismologia.html

Romania

Romania National Institute for Earth Physics (RONIEP):

http://www.infp.ro

Russia

Kola Regional Seismological Center (KRSC), Russian Academy of Science

<http://www.krsc.ksc.ru/krsc

Moscow IRIS Data Analysis Center (MDC):

http://home.synapse.ru/eng

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

http://www.wdcb.rssi.ru

Russian Academy of Sciences. Geophysical Survey. Obninsk -

http://ceme.gsras.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/iagpds.html

Institut Cartografic de Catalunya, Barcelona:

http://www.icc.es/sismes/home.html

Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra 'Jaume Almera', Barcelona:

http://dg.ija.csic.es

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://www.koeri.boun.edu.tr

Special Kocaeli (Izmit) Earthquake Pages:

http://geophysics.gg.utk.edu/izmit/earthquake.htm (mirror of Turkish site)

Ministry of Public Works and Settlement, Earthquake Research Department, Republic of Turkey:

http://www.deprem.gov.tr

Tubitak MRC Earth Sciences Research Institute:

http://www.nemrut.mam.gov.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:

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

Yugoslavia

Montenegro Seismological Observatory, Podgorica, Yugoslavia:

http://www.seismo.cg.yu

Institutions in Africa, Asia and Oceania

South Asia

Amateur Seismic Center for south Asia:

http://www.asc-india.org

Southeast Asia

ASEAN Earthquake Information Center (AEIC):

http://aeic.bmg.go.id

Algeria

Departemetn Etudes et Surveillance Sismique, Algeria

http://www.craag.edu.dz/Site_ess/index.htm

Australia

Australian Geological Survey, Australian Seismological Centre:

www.agso.gov.au

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

Seismology Research Centre, Melbourne:

http://www.seis.com.au

China

China Center of Digital Seismic Network (in Chinese):

http://www.ccdsn.seis.ac.cn

China Digital Seismic Network (in Chinese):

http://www.eq-igp.ac.cn/bdcndsn/index.html

Hong Kong Observatory

http://www.weather.gov.hk/gts/equake/seismic_mon_e.htm

India

India Meteorological Department

http://www.imd.ernet.in/section/seismo/dynamic

Japan

Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo:

http://www.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/

Malaysia

Malaysian Meteorological Service, Seismological Services-

http://www.kjc.gov.my/ns-home/docs/seismo.htm

Morocco

Institut Scientifique, Rabat, Morocco (Dipartement de Physique du Globe):

http://www.israbat.ac.ma/acceuil.htm

Nepal

Nepal National Seismological Center

http://www.seismonepal.org

New Zealand

Victoria University, Institute of Geophysics, New Zealand

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

Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences:

http://www.gns.cri.nz/earthact/earthquakes

Philippines

Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology

http://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph

South Africa

Geological Survey of South Africa, Seismic Research Unit

http://www.geoscience.org.za/seismo

Taiwan

Broadband Array in Taiwan for Seismology (BATS):

http://bats.earth.sinica.edu.tw

Central Weather Bureau - Taiwan Seismic Information,

http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V3.0e/index-e.htm

Seismic information relating to volcanic activity.

Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO):

http://www.avo.alaska.edu

Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO):

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

Mount Erebus Volcanic Observatory (New Mexico Tech):

http://www.ees.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.

Other useful references

Instructions for obtaining seismic data without a WEB browser.

Finger USAGE:

`finger quake@machine.domain'

Ftp USAGE:

`ftp machine.domain' ; login: anonymous ; password: e-mail_address

E-mail USAGE:

mail autodrm@machine.domain ; include text: `PLEASE HELP'. Detailed instructions will be e-mailed back to you.

Bulletin Board USAGE:

`telnet (or rlogin) machine.domain' ; login: special name and password.

Referenced by the NSF sponsored UniGuide Academic Guide to the Internet.