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Realtime monitoring, station, and other various seismic data available for download. Access to data products to view and download.

Information on these Data Collections

The data collections below are data releases associated with research publications by USGS authors. The data listed on the webpage accessed by the button link on the right are not associated with any specific publications. They are instead bodies of data associated with various earthquake monitoring systems.

Earthquake and Monitoring Data

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Ongoing data collections and popular collections, access to data with online tools. (Datasets associated with publications are listed below.)

Links to Data and Access Tools
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Shakemap earthquake scenario: Building Seismic Safety Council 2014 Event Set (BSSC2014) Shakemap earthquake scenario: Building Seismic Safety Council 2014 Event Set (BSSC2014)

This is a catalog of earthquake scenarios, represented as ShakeMaps. A ShakeMap is a USGS product that facilitates communication of earthquake effects by portraying a map of the severity of shaking. Maps of shaking severity are provided in terms of macroseismic intensity, peak ground acceleration, peak ground velocity, and spectral accelerations (at 0.3, 1.0 and 3 sec oscillator periods)...
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Earthquake Hazards Program, Geologic Hazards Science Center

3D point cloud data from laser scanning along the 2014 South Napa Earthquake surface rupture (2016) 3D point cloud data from laser scanning along the 2014 South Napa Earthquake surface rupture (2016)

Point cloud data in .laz format collected using a 3D laser scanner in Napa California in 2014 and 2015. Also included are aligned airborne laser scanner data from 2003 and 2014.
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Earthquake Hazards Program, Geologic Hazards Science Center

Liquefaction observations from ten earthquakes in the US, Japan, China, and Taiwan Liquefaction observations from ten earthquakes in the US, Japan, China, and Taiwan

These data include observations of liquefaction from ten earthquakes. The data are provided as a feature collection in a GeoJSON file format. Individual features are either points or polygons. Each feature has a single attribute called "earthquake" which gives the name and year of the earthquake associated with the liquefaction feature.
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Earthquake Hazards Program, Geologic Hazards Science Center

Point-source to finite-fault distance conversions Point-source to finite-fault distance conversions

Produce approximated finite fault distances and variance corrections given point source information, e.g., Repi (epcentral distance) to Rrup (rupture distance).
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Earthquake Hazards Program

2016 One-Year Seismic Hazard Forecast for the Central and Eastern United States from Induced and Natural Earthquakes 2016 One-Year Seismic Hazard Forecast for the Central and Eastern United States from Induced and Natural Earthquakes

A one-year seismic hazard forecast for the Central and Eastern United States (CEUS), based on induced and natural earthquakes, has been produced by the U.S. Geological Survey. The model assumes that earthquake rates calculated from several different time windows will remain relatively stationary and can be used to forecast earthquake hazard and damage intensity for the year 2016. This...
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Earthquake Hazards Program, Geologic Hazards Science Center

Spreadsheet Applications Spreadsheet Applications

A simple text format suitable for loading data into spreadsheet applications. This is a good option for manual scientific analysis.
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Earthquake Hazards Program, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Communications and Publishing

QuakeML QuakeML

A flexible, extensible and modular XML representation of seismological data which is intended to cover a broad range of fields of application in modern seismology.
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Earthquake Hazards Program, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Communications and Publishing

Programmatic Access Programmatic Access

A well-structured format readily parsed by most programming languages. This is a good option for software developers wishing to use earthquake data.
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Earthquake Hazards Program, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Communications and Publishing

Earthquake Notification Service Earthquake Notification Service

The Earthquake Notification Service (ENS) is a free service that sends you automated notifications to your email or cell phone when earthquakes happen.
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Earthquake Hazards Program, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Communications and Publishing

Atom Syndication Atom Syndication

A basic syndication format supported by a variety of feed readers. This is a good option for casually subscribing to earthquake information.
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Earthquake Hazards Program, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Communications and Publishing

Real-time Earthquake Information Real-time Earthquake Information

Get real-time earthquake notifications sent to you using a number of popular mediums: Feeds, Email, Twitter, etc…
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Earthquake Hazards Program, Geologic Hazards Science Center
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