Seismic waveform data from the UK National Seismometer Network

This is the raw data collected by the stations of the UK National Seismometer Network. Continuous data is stored as day long miniSEED files on the Edinburgh LINUX filesystem. Data is present for 170 past and present stations, with the oldest data dating from 2001 and new data being added in near real-time. This data is accessible via the BGS EIDA node (eida.bgs.ac.uk). The waveform files are accompanied by metadata that allows the raw data to be converted to useful units, as well as the location of the stations. All stations are indexed but not all are still active and will be flagged accordingly.

Date (Creation): 2001

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608603

Distributor

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

Point of contact

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

Maintenance and update frequency: asNeeded As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Seismometers
Seismic waves

dataCentre

UK Location (INSPIRE)

Keywords

NERC_DDC

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Other constraints: licenceOGL

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Other constraints: Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Spatial representation type: textTable Text, table

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

Date (Revision): 2009

Geographic identifier

UK [id=139300]

Date (Creation): 1979

Geographic identifier

UKM

Date (Revision): 2009

Begin date: 2001

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

Distribution format

miniSEED file (.mseed) ()
XML file (.xml) ()

Distributor

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

OnLine resource: BGS EIDA Node ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
This server is run by the BGS Earthquake Seismology Team to provide web services for downloading and querying metadata about BGS seismic data. These are primarily aimed at machine-to-machine communication to allow BGS to participate as a node in the European Integrated Data Archive (EIDA) network.

OnLine resource: BGS Seismology Webpage - Real-time Seismograms ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Provides function to view day-today recordings and past recordings for monitoring stations in the UK.

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Other: dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: The data was collected at stations spread throughout the UK. The vast majority of data was recorded using broadband seismometers connected to 24 bit digitisers. These instruments record ground velocity in three orthogonal directions. The three resulting channels are stored as separate files. Current stations are telemetered in real-time to Edinburgh and directly archived with a sample rate of 100 Hz.