Access Data

Waveform Data

NetDC

NetDC, an IRIS product, is now being implemented at SCEDC. Please email Shang-Lin Chen (schen @ gps.caltech.edu) if you notice any problems or if you have any questions.

To send a request, email netdc@gps.caltech.edu. Your email should have the standard NetDC request format, as described in the NetDC user manual. See below for an example request.

Because of some issues with our meta-data (which we are currently working to resolve), there are a few caveats you should know about data from SCEDC.

• We only have response files for the current time. If you request a response file for an earlier time, we will give you the one for now. You can also get RESP files from our ftp site.
• We also only have dataless SEED files for the current time, and we are using these files to make the SEED files that we ship for a Data Request. It's possible, particularly for older data, that the SEED headers may not entirely correspond to the waveforms.
• Due to the difficulties of combining dataless SEED for each station into one large SEED volume, we are returning a tar of SEED files. To get your data, you will have to use "tar xvf filename". If we do not have a dataless SEED for a station, we will return a mini-SEED instead.

We are working to resolve these problems. We hope you'll bear with us in the meantime.

Below is an example email request:

.NETDC_REQUEST
.NAME Joe Smith
.INST Caltech
.EMAIL somename@someinst.edu
.END
.INV *
.INV * CI PAS * BH? "2004 01 01 00 00 00" "2004 01 01 01 00 00"
.RESP * CI PAS * BHZ "2004 01 01 00 00 00" "2004 01 01 01 00 00"
.DATA * CI PAS * "BHZ VHZ" "2004 01 01 00 00 00" "2004 01 01 01 00 00"

Keep in mind that while .INV requests can have any number of arguments, .RESP and .DATA requests must have the all information above.