Southern California Earthquake Data

Description

This dataset contains ground motion velocity and acceleration seismic waveforms recorded by the Southern California Seismic Network (SCSN) and archived at the Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC). A Distributed Acousting Sensing (DAS) dataset is included.

Update Frequency

Daily

License

SCEDC herby grants the non-exclusive, royalty free, non-transferable, worldwide right and license to use, reproduce and publicly display in all media public data from the Southern California Seismic Network. Please cite the SCEDC (doi:10.7909/C3WD3xH1) and SCSN (doi:10.7914/SN/CI) for any research publications using this data.

Documentation

https://scedc.caltech.edu/data/cloud.html

Managed By

Southern California Earthquake Data Center

See all datasets managed by Southern California Earthquake Data Center.

Contact

scedc@gps.caltech.edu

How to Cite

Southern California Earthquake Data was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/southern-california-earthquakes.

Usage Examples

Tutorials

• Cactus to Clouds: Processing The SCEDC Open Data Set on AWS by Tim Clements
  
• Getting Started with SCEDC AWS Public Dataset by Ellen Yu
  
• Jupyter Notebook tutorial on Ridgecrest DAS dataset by Jiuxun Yin
  
• Script to Download Seismic Waveforms from the SCEDC AWS Public Dataset by Aparna Bhaskaran
  
• SeisNoise.jl GPU Computing Tutorial - Another example of accessing data s3://scedc-pds for ambient noise cross-correlation by Tim Clements
  
• Using Amazon API Gateway and Lambda to window and decimate waveforms by Shang-Lin Chen
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• Using Lambda to Process Seismograms by Shang-Lin Chen
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Publications

• Southern California Earthquake Data Now Available in the AWS Cloud by Ellen Yu; Aparna Bhaskaran; Shang‐Lin Chen; Zachary E. Ross; Egill Hauksson; Robert W. Clayton
  
• The Seismic Signature of California's Earthquakes, Droughts, and Floods. by Tim Clements; Marine Denolle