Data products derived from raw data are produced both by the
scientific community and the IRIS DMC. These complement the
simple data products based on raw data such as event segmented
waveforms, which are available via the DMCs traditional
mechanisms. Community guidance is for our product
development efforts is provided by the
Data Products Working Group;
feedback, suggestions and input are welcome at any time.
IRIS Earth Model Collaboration
A repository of Earth models with the aim of providing the research community with access to various Earth models, visualization tools for model preview, facilities to extract model data/metadata and access to the contributed processing software and scripts.
Maps, record sections & other plots for M6.0+ events
The IRIS DMC's Event Plot product is a suite of plots that are automatically generated following all earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater. The plot suite uses all open broadband data, or a sub-selection, available at the IRIS DMC at the time the product was generated. Based on data availability and signal quality, some plots may not be produced for certain events.
The USArray Ground Motion Visualization
Visualizations of real data showing how seismic waves sweep across the USArray network of seismic stations. Watch how seismic waves from earthquakes in the US and around the world cause the ground to move at each seismometer.
The Back Projection (BP) product shows the beamformed time history and location of coherent short period P-wave energy generated by large earthquakes observed at three regional arrays and across the Global Seismic Network. These are generated following all global M6.5+ earthquakes. The back projections typically take less than 10 minutes to compute, however arrival of event triggers, travel time of P-waves, downloading of data and shared DMC computing resources delays publication of results in SPUD to about an hour after origin time. These are fully automated and not reviewed by a human.
To support USArray TA infrasound data set, the IRIS Data Management Center (DMC) has developed two infrasound data products: the TA Infrasound Reference Event Database (TAIRED ) and TA Infrasound Detections (TAID ). These two data products are designed to provide insight and tools for researchers to begin working with this large, and somewhat unique, new data set.
Global stacks of up to a million event-windowed seismograms using short-term to long-term averages (STA/LTA) in different frequency bands for vertical broadband data (1990-2012) available from the IRIS DMC. Long period versions include vertical and horizontal component data.
Automated Surface Wave Phase Velocity Measuring System
Do-it-yourself automated surface wave tomography using the MATLAB based ASWMS package developed by Ge Jin & James Gaherty. This product provides 1) the ASWMS software package and 2) weekly updated USArray surface wave tomography maps using ASWMS.
Shear-wave splitting databases
The shear-wave splitting (SWS) databases data product provides the geosciences community with an easy access to two published databases:
Animations and figures of seismicity automatically generated following large global earthquakes (Mag > 7).
EarthScope Automated Receiver Survey
The EarthScope Automated Receiver Survey (EARS) calculates bulk crustal properties of IRIS stations using receiver functions. Originally developed at the University of South Carolina, EARS continuously monitors for new events and stations updating the database when new candidate data are found.
A collection of continuous envelope functions to search for tectonic tremor and for data quality analysis. Envelope functions are computed automatically by the Earth and Space Sciences Department of the University of Washington utilizing selected portions of the IRIS DMC waveform archive and are distributed by the IRIS DMC.
Earthquake energy & rupture duration
Earthquake energy and rupture durations are estimated following all earthquakes with initial magnitude above Mw 6.0 and a GCMT moment tensor. The method follows Convers and Newman, 2011. These are fully automated and not reviewed by a human.
Download synthetics from ShakeMovie website
The Global ShakeMovie website at Princeton provides bundles of all calculated synthetics in SAC format for reach event as tar files.
Search for synthetics at IRIS
Events for which synthetics are available in the DMC archive are listed in SPUD.
Point-source synthetic seismograms are used along with vertical component recordings of short-arc Rayleigh waves (R1) from GCMT Mw7.0+ earthquakes to calculate source-time functions (STF) at GSN and other stations.
Global Centroid-Moment-Tensors from the GCMT project at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are available through SPUD within minutes after their publication. Initial quick-CMT solutions are shown and are later updated to GCMT solutions when updates arrive.
Western US Ambient Noise Cross-Correlations
An ambient noise cross-correlation based database of empirical Green's functions (EGFs) of the Western US using USArray Transportable Array (TA) data.
PDF/PSD Bulk Data Delivery System
PDF/PSD Bulk Data Delivery System is an automated system that accepts BREQ_FAST-formatted requests and provides users with the requested PSD data files (daily bin files).
Magnetotelluric Transfer Functions
USArray magnetotelluric transfer functions calculated from USArray MT stations by Oregon State University are available from the SPUD EMTF repository in both XML and EDI format and also directly from the DMC’s website in the EDI format.
An XML format for electromagnetic transfer functions and related conversion software was developed by OSU with funding from IRIS. The software and documentation is available in the SeisCode EMTF-FCU project.
The Audio/Video Seismic Waveform Visualization
The SeisSound Visualization is an audio/video-based IRIS DMS data product that illustrates the frequency and amplitude content of seismograms. Conveying the seismograms frequency content both visually and audibly produces a better understanding of their spectral content.
A software framework for seismic event processing
EMERALD is a complete open-source software server-based system for requesting and processing large sets of event based seismic data from a web browser. Data sets containing millions of seismic waveforms can easily be managed, reviewed, and processed. The system can automatically check for metadata updates, and alert the user to metadata changes.
The DMC archives phase arrivals from the USArray Array Network Facility in addition to other DMS sources. The event bullentins are added to the DMC’s event tables, making them available via the standard event query interfaces. The original submissions are also available as products.
The USGS WWFC Pilot Scanning Project
Results of a pilot project whereby WWSSN seismic records, originally recorded on film, were digitized.
Retrieve station calibrations in SEED format
Station Digest reports for decomissioned USArray Transportable Array stations.
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