SCEDC Web Services

The tables below describe the web services available at the SCEDC. FDSN web services follow the FDSN API - a standard followed by many seismic networks. In addition, many scientific programming frameworks such as ObsPy and MatLab provide libraries that use these APIs.

FDSNWS
Service interface	Version	Summary	Return options
station	v1.1	metadata for waveform time series archived	FDSN StationXML text
dataselect	v1.1.1	waveform time series	miniSEED
event	v1.1	event catalog webservice	QuakeML text
availability	v1.1	waveform and seismi phase availability webservice	text geocsv json request
SCEDCWS
Service interface	Version	Summary	Return options
webstp	v1.0.1	SCEDC earthquake catalog SCEDC phase data continuous waveform time series triggered waveform time series	miniSEED SAC ASCII text
sacpz	v1.0	Poles and zeros of instrument response in SAC ASCII format.	SAC
resp	v1.0		RESP

 

Web services can be accessed in a number of different ways:

• Small requests can be handled through your browser
• Dedicated clients are available for making more complex or larger queries:
  • IRIS Fetch scripts: Command line scripts for accessing data via web services. SCEDC specific info. and information on using the scripts with other data centers.
  • irisFetch.m: A MATLAB library created by IRIS that allows direct access to data.
  • ObsPy: The ObsPy project is dedicated to providing a Python framework for processing seismological data. Included in this framework is the capability to retrieve data from FDSN web services.
• Automated or scripted requests can be made using programs such as wget or curl.
  Note: For POST users, there are known issues with wget v1.12 and https. This version does not correctly handle some properties in SSL certificates and may fail with the error ERROR: certificate common name doesn't match requested host name. We recommend upgrading to a higher version of wget or using curl instead.