SEISMICITY SCHEMA - SUPPORTED FORMATS
Information about supported seismicity catalog
formats can be found in
http://www.scecdc.scec.org/catalogs.html
Current GML Seismicity Schema supports 4
formats
SCSN
SCEDC
Dinger-Shearer
Haukkson
Format Specifications - Info about the columns of each catalog
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SCSN (a.k.a. CALTECH or CATREAD) FORMAT specification |
col len format name comment
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1 4 a4 year YYYY
6 2 a2 mon MM
9 2 a2 day DD
13 2 a2 hour HH (UTC time:
16 2 a2 min mm 7 hours ahead of Pacific Daylight Time
19 5 f5.2 sec SS.ss 8 hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time)
25 3 i3 lat degrees
29 5 f5.2 lat minutes
34 4 i4 lon degrees
39 5 f5.2 lon minutes
45 1 a1 quality location quality
'A' +- 1 km horizontal distance
+- 2 km depth
'B' +- 2 km horizontal distance
+- 5 km depth
'C' +- 5 km horizontal distance
no depth restriction
'D' >+- 5 km horizontal distance
'Z' no quality listed in database
47 3 f3.1 magnitude
54 6 f6.2 depth kilometers
60 3 i3 nph number of picked phases
67 5 f5.2 rms root mean square of travel times
73 8 i8 eventid event ID
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SAMPLE |
#YYY MM DD HH mm SS.ss LATITUDE LONGITUDE Q MAG DEPTH NPH RMS EVID 1932 01 01 23 52 07.87 34 7.80-117 59.58 D 0.0 6.00 7 0.07 3358386 1932 01 02 16 42 43.74 33 54.30-117 38.40 C 2.7 6.00 12 0.26 3358387 1932 01 04 21 30 02.56 33 50.28-117 28.86 C 2.0 6.00 11 0.80 3358396
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SCEDC CATALOG FORMAT specification |
col len format name comment
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1 10 a10 date YYYY/MM/DD
12 11 a11 time HH:mm:SS:ss (UTC time--
7 hours ahead of Pacific Daylight Time
8 hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time)
24 2 a2 eventtype event type
local (le)
regional (re)
teleseism (ts)
quarry blast (qb)
sonic boom (sn)
nuclear blast (nt)
unknown event (uk)
27 4 f4.2 magnitude
32 1 a1 magtype type of magnitude
'e' energy magnitude
'w' moment magnitude
'b' body-wave magnitude
's' surface-wave magnitude
'l' local (WOOD-ANDERSON) magnitude
'c' coda amplitude
'h' helicorder magnitude (short-period Benioff)
'd' coda duration magnitude
'n' no magnitude
36 7 f7.3 lat decimal degrees
44 8 f8.3 lon decimal degrees
53 5 f5.1 depth kilometers
59 1 a1 quality location quality
'A' +- 1 km horizontal distance
+- 2 km depth
'B' +- 2 km horizontal distance
+- 5 km depth
'C' +- 5 km horizontal distance
no depth restriction
'D' >+- 5 km horizontal distance
'Z' no quality listed in database
61 8 a8 eventid event ID
70 3 i3 nph number of picked phases
75 4 i4 ngrams number of grams
(i.e. # of station traces)
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SAMPLE |
#YYY/MM/DD HH:mm:SS.ss ET MAG M LAT LON DEPTH Q EVID NPH NGRM 1932/01/01 23:52:07.87 le 0.00 n 34.130 -117.993 6.0 D 3358386 7 0 1932/01/02 16:42:43.74 le 2.72 h 33.905 -117.640 6.0 C 3358387 12 0 1932/01/04 21:30:02.56 le 2.00 h 33.838 -117.481 6.0 C 3358396 11 0
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Dinger - Shearer Catalog Format specification |
Col Comment 1: Year of origin time 2: Month of origin time 3: Day of origin time 4: Hour of origin time 5: Minute of origin time 6: Second of origin time (time is UTC) 7: Latitude (degrees, North positive) 8: Longitude (degrees, East positive) 9: Depth (km, positive down) 10: East-West standard error (km) 11: North-South standard error (km) 12: Vertical standard error (km) 13: Origin time standard error (s) 14: SCEC CUSP event id 15: Magnitude (from SCEC) 16: Number of P picks used in location 17: Number of S picks used in location
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SAMPLE |
Year m d h mi second lat long depth ewer nser vser otse eventid mag np ns 1975 1 1 3 16 29.413 35.2568 -118.5619 10.62 0.82 2.12 9.81 0.26 3037299 2.3 5 3 1975 1 1 7 51 38.757 34.2323 -117.4435 12.30 0.28 0.28 0.84 0.02 3037300 2.7 21 9 1975 1 1 13 15 30.189 34.3840 -118.4456 7.61 0.35 0.28 0.65 0.04 3037301 2.2 10 5
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Haukksson Catalog Format specification |
Col Comment 1: yr 2: mo 3: da 4: hr 5: mi 6: sec 7: lat 8: lon 9: dep/km 10: mag 11: #ph 12: rms 13: erh 14: erz 15: x 16: y 17: z 18: CUSPID
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SAMPLE |
yr mo da hr mi sec lat lon dep/km mag #ph rms erh erz x y z CUSPID 1988 1 1 0 6 41.03 34n11.01 116w24.79 4.12 2.21 24 0.08 0.3 0.9 -55.71 -92.30 4.12 740059