Web services at GEOFON

Services

GEOFON offers access to seismic waveform and station metadata and other information using web services with standard APIs. Anyone may request data and metadata, using any suitable web client.

We offer the following services from geofon.gfz.de:

fdsnws-station
Inventory for all networks archived at GFZ. A current list of networks is available. In particular, networks which are coordinated as part of EIDA but not archived here are not available by web service. Their metadata can be accessed using our data portal or by other methods. More
fdsnws-dataselect
Real time and archive data for those networks archived at GFZ (not other EIDA data centres). You can check availability with our availability database or fdsnws-availability. More
fdsnws-event
Earthquake parameter service contains information about events we have located, back to 1 August 2007. You may also find our long-running eqinfo event catalog helpful. More
fdsnws-availability
Time series data availability. More
EIDA's wfcatalog
Detailed waveform metric information including quality control parameters (sample metrics, record header flags, and timing quality) for data archived at GFZ (not other EIDA data centres). More
The EIDA routing service
Information used for managing data and products coordinated between the distributed data centres of EIDA. More
seedpsd
The power spectral density (PSD) service seedpsd provides spectral information about waveforms archived at GFZ. More