Database

Comprehensive Databases and Models

• USGS Data
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  • National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC): Data and Products
    • NGDC and its sister data centers are merged into the NCEI
  • National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI): Data
• EarthByte Data and Model
• EFEHR Services
• IRIS EMC: IRIS Earth Model Collaboration | Web service
  • Reference Earth models
  • Earth models
  • Visualization tools
• Earth Models: a platform to store and exchange modeling tools and data sets related to the Earth
• Crust1.0 | Chinese Introduction: A New Global Crustal Model at 1x1 Degrees
• LITHO1.0: An updated crust and lithospheric model of the Earth
• LithoRef18: A global reference model of the lithosphere and upper mantle from joint inversion and analysis of multiple data sets.
• Age, Spreading Rates and Spreading Asymmetry of the World’s Ocean Crust
  • also here
  • Chinese Introduction
  • GMT | GMT-China
• Subduction zone initiation
• Ben Horner-Johnson’s GMT & Geophysics Links
• 地质专业知识服务系统: 介绍

Seismic Databases and Models

Databases

• IRIS Data Services Products
  • globalstacks: Global stacks of millions of seismograms
  • SeisSound: The Audio/Video Seismic Waveform Visualization
  • SourceTimeFunction: Short-arc Rayleigh wave source-time functions
  • ShakeMovieSynthetics: 1D & 3D synthetic seismograms from the Global ShakeMovie project
  • syngine: A webservice quickly returning synthetic seismograms calculate by 3D AxiSEM, using Instaseis | Chinese introduction
• Seismo Archives: Scanned Seismograms from Historical Earthquakes
• Receiver function
  • EARS: EarthScope Automated Receiver Survey at IRIS Products
  • GLImER: A global RF dataset
• Shear-wave splitting
  • SWS-DBs: Shear-wave splitting databases at IRIS Products
  • SplittingDataBase: A global shear-wave splitting database
  • Automated Splitting Project: Shear-wave splitting database at ISC
• Surface-wave dispersion
  • ANCC-CIEI: Western US Ambient Noise Cross-Correlations
  • Global Dispersion Model GDM52: Columbia University
  • Global Surface Wave Dispersion Maps: University of Colorado, Boulder
  • China/Tibet Surface Wave Dispersion Maps: University of Colorado, Boulder
  • USArray Phase-Velocity Maps USANT12: Columbia University
  • ASWMS: Automated Surface Wave Phase Velocity Measuring System and surface-wave dispersion data at IRIS Products

Models

• The Reference Earth Model
• China Geophysical Reference Model
• EPcrust model: A new European crustal model | European Seismological Reference Model
• AuSREM: Australian Seismological Reference Model AuSREM
• AusPass: Australian Passive Seismic Server Research Data Products
• Irina M. Artemieva’s crust models
• 1D model
  • Taup: StdModels contain many 1D models, e.g., PREM, AK135, iasp91 etc.
  • IRIS EMC: IRIS EMC - Reference Earth Models
  • AK135: model, travletime tables, plots and software | traveltime tables and ellipticity corrections with the ellipticity correction method for iasp91
• 3D shear-wave velocity models from CU-Boulder
• 3D body-wave tomographic models
  • Global 3-D Seismic Tomography
  • GAP_P4
  • UU-P07
• Slab
  • Slab1.0
  • Slab2: Interactive Map | Slab2 model

Geological Databases

• 全国地质资料馆(中国)
• One Geology: Providing geoscience data globally
• Volcanic Data
  • NOAA Volcanic Data and Information
  • Volcano Discovery
  • Global Volcanism Program
• Sediment
  • A Global Digital map of Sediment Thickness: Used in the CRUST1.0 model
  • Sediment Thickness of the World’s Oceans and Marginal Seas

Faults

• Global Earthquake Model Foundation’s Global Active Faults: Interactive map | Brief Introduction
  • Active Tectonics of the Andes: Brief Introduction
  • HimaTibetMap: Brief Introduction
• 中国地震活动断层探察数据中心
• 全国活动断层展示系统: 介绍
• USGS Hazard Assessment Data and Models: Faults and Folds
• EFEHR: European Database of Seismogenic Faults

Geographic & Geodesy Databases

• GMT Dataset Collections: Chinese Docs
• Geography
  • GSHHG: A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database | Chinese Introduction
  • The Digital Chart of the World for GMT 5 or later | Chinese Introduction
  • Database of Global Administrative Areas: Chinese Introduction | GMT中文社区
  • National Catalogue Service for Geographic Information: Chinese Introduction
  • GMT中文社区数据: 中国地学数据集 | 中国地学数据
    • GMT自带中国国界问题
    • 中国国界、省界及十段线
  • Earth Relief
    • Global Earth Relief Grids | 全球地形起伏数据 | 全球地形起伏数据总结
    • High-precision Altimetric Data: Chinese Introduction
• Plate Boundary Models: Chinese Introduction
  • NUVEL
  • PB2002
    • GMT-China: PB2002: 全球板块边界数据
    • The original download link seems wrong. The dataset is now within ALL_Bird_freeware.zip at http://peterbird.name/oldFTP
  • NNR-MORVEL56
• Gravity
  • International Centre for Global Earth Models (ICGEM)
  • International Gravimetric Bureau (BGI)
  • International Service for the Geoid (ISG)
  • International Geodynamics and Earth Tide Service (IGETS)
  • International Digital Elevation Model Service (IDEMS)
  • International Gravity Field Service (IGFS)
  • EGM2008: Earth Gravitational Model 2008
  • WGM2012 Earth’s gravity anomalies
• Stress and strain
  • Strain Rate Model: Introdution
  • Earth Global Stress Change

Geotherm

• Global temperature datasets
• TC1: Global thermal model for the continental lithosphere
• Heat flow
  • Global heat flow database
  • Global surface heat flow database (version of 2012)

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Earthquake Catalog

Global Earthquake Catalog

• IRIS web service
• ISC Bulletin | ISC web service
• ISC-EHB Bulletin
• ISC-GEM Catalogue: ISC-GEM Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue (1904-2015) | Introduction
• USGS Preliminary Determination of Epicenters (PDE) | Chinese introduction
• USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog (ComCat) | USGS web service | ComCat Wrapper Libraries
  • Historic ANSS Composite Catalog
• EMSC catalog
• Global Earthquake History: Introduction

Regional Earthquake Catalog

• 中国台网正式地震目录：统一的中国地震台网地震目录
• 中国历史地震目录
• 中国台网统一地震目录: 无法打开
• Euro-Med Bulletin
• Dissemination of long-term seismological data
  • European Archive of Historical EArthquake Data (AHEAD)
  • Share European Earthquake Catalogue (SHEEC)
• SCSN Catalog | SCEDC web service
• NCSN Catalog | NCEDC web service
• Egill Hauksson’s relocated catalog from SCSN
• Canada National Earthquake DataBase
• JMA catalog | Chinese note
  • JMA Unified Hypocenter Catalog: Hinet provides event waveform data, arrivel time data and focal mechanism based on the catalog.
  • The Seismological Bulletin of Japan: Final version of JMA Unified Hypocenter Catalog
• Australia Earthquakes

Focal Mechanism Catalog

• Global CMT | Chinese Introduction
• ISC Bulletin focal mechanism
• EMSC Moment Tensors solutions
• NCSN Moment tensor catalog
• SCSN Moment tensor catalog
• NIED focal mechnism
  • NIED Moment Tensor solutions
  • NIED Earthquake Mechanism Search
• JMA focal mechnism catalog
  • JMA CMT Catalog
  • JMA Nodal Plane Solution
  • JMA focal mechanism catalog: Focal mechanism based on JMA Unified Hypocenter Catalog | Chinese download note
• Hi-net AUQA Focal Mechanism Catalog
• Italian Time Domain Moment Tensor Catalogue
• Taiwan (China) BATS CMT Catalog Search
• SLU Moment Tensor Solutions

Special earthquakes

• World Tremor Database
• Slow Earthquake Database

Arrival Time/Phase Data

• ISC Arrival Time Data
• JMA Arrival Time Data: The difference between those two data needs to be confirmed further
  • JMA Arrival Time Data: Arrival time data based on JMA Unified Hypocenter Catalog | Chinese download note
  • JMA Arrival Time Data: Arrival time data based on the Seismological Bulletin of Japan
• 中国台网震相数据
• 中国国家台网震相数据

Data Centers/Networks/Waveforms

Global

• FDSN
  • FDSN Newtork Codes
  • Data Centers Supporting FDSN Web Services
• Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS)
  • IRIS Data Services
    • IRIS Data Management Center (DMC)
  • IRIS MetaData Aggregator | manual
  • IRIS DMC Google Map Service
  • IRIS DMC Web Services
• CTBTO: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization | web portal
  • virtual Data Exploitation Centre: a global network that uses state-of-the-art seismic, hydroacoustic, infrasound and radionuclide facilities | request for access

Asia

• 国家测震台网数据备份中心
• 中国地震科学探测台站数据中心
• 中国地震科学实验场
• Taiwan Institute of Earth Sciences (IES)
  • 台灣地震科學中心 (TEC)
    • TEC Data Center
  • Strong Motion and Mobil Seismic Networks
• NIED Hi-net
• NIED F-net
• NIED K-net, KiK-net
• Jarray
• Ocean Hemisphere Project DMC

North America

• Southern California Seismic Network
  • Southern California Earthquake Data Center | web services
• Northern California Earthquake Data Center
• Alaska Earthquake Information Center
• Canadian National Seismic Network

Europe

• AlpArray Seismic Network

Oceanic

• AusPass: the Australian Passive Seismic Server
• GeoNet: Geological hazard information for New Zealand

Revision history

• 2019-12-25: update some links, commit to SeisMan
• 2019-10-20: initial draft, reference to SeisMan’s links