Continuous seismic waveform data from the UKArray temporary seismic network, between 2015 and 2025
Continuous seismic waveforms from a temporary network of seismometers deployed in the North of England between 2015 and 2025 for the UKArray project. The aim of the project was to establish a robust baseline of background seismicity prior to shale gas exploration in the region. Data were recorded on Guralp CMG3-ESP broadband seismometers and digitised with a sample rate of 100 Hz. Raw data are stored in miniSEED format (https://ds.iris.edu/ds/nodes/dmc/data/formats/miniseed/). Metadata that allows the raw data to be converted to ground motions, as well as the location of the stations are stored in StationXML format (https://docs.fdsn.org/projects/stationxml/en/latest/overview.html). Both raw data and metadata are available from the UK node of the European Integrated Data Archive (https://eida.bgs.ac.uk) using standard FDSN webservices (https://www.fdsn.org/webservices/). Further details about the network are available at
https://www.fdsn.org/networks/detail/UR/.
The DOI for this data set is
https://doi.org/10.7914/SN/UR
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2026-02-06
Distributor
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
0115 936 3276
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
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EDINBURGH
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LOTHIAN
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EH14 4AP
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United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Originator
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
0115 936 3276
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
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LOTHIAN
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EH14 4AP
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United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notApplicable notApplicable
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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- Geothermal energy
- Seismicity
- Shale gas
- Microseisms
- Seismic waves
- Hydraulic fracturing
- Earthquakes
- dataCentre
- Keywords
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- NERC_DDC
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- licenceOGL
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
- 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
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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NORTHERN ENGLAND [id=151000]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
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- Begin date
- 2015
- End date
- 2025
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
- Distribution format
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miniSEED
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miniSEED
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Distributor
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
0115 936 3276
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
,
LOTHIAN
,
EH14 4AP
,
United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
- OnLine resource
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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
- Data ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
- 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
- Data were recorded on Guralp CMG3-ESP broadband seismometers and digitised with a sample rate of 100 Hz. Continuous data was recorded on local disk storage before transfer to archive
- File identifier
- 4ab4a0a2-f514-ca76-e063-3050940aaf1a XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-05-03
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Point of contact
British Geological Survey
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
,
LOTHIAN
,
EH14 4AP
,
United Kingdom
+44 131 667 1000
- Dataset URI
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608632
Overviews
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