Waveform Data
AusPass primarily hosts data collected by ANU researchers but also experiments conducted via ANSIR equipment loans, as well as other datasets from people who simply asked us to host their data. We also host some networks from external agencies and non-ANSIR projects. For an updated list, see the table on the main AusPass webpage or feel free to search our stations via FDSN.
Hosting Your Data With Us
If you are interested in hosting your seismic data with us, please get in touch! Chances are we would be more than happy to oblige, but keep in mind that we also require metadata in the appropriate format.
AU/IU Network data
We also host some waveform data from GeoScience Australia's national network AU and the global network IU. This is done as a convenience to our users as much of this data is concurrent and proximal to our networks. Again we reiterate that we only host SOME of this data, we do not have the resources to do a full clone. If we do not have the data you're looking for, it's best to try IRIS/Earthscope. If they don't have it, you should get in touch with Geoscience Australia directly.
Venn diagram of where AU network data is stored online
QA/QC
Where possible, we will fix obvious timing errors such as constant time offsets and clock drifts and host the "fixed" version of the waveform data. Sometimes timing corrections cannot be reliably fixed (e.g. clocks jumping around too much intraday) and they are left as-is. We do not fix north azimuth misalignments. We keep copies of the original raw data as well as a list of timing corrections and are happy to facilitate access to these upon request. If you see any issues, please let us know.
Station Data
For all of the networks and stations in our waveform archive, we also host the accompanying STATION metadata (which includes response information). For networks outside of our control (e.g. AU and IU) we download this metadata from IRIS/Earthscope. Any issues with this data should be directed at the respective agencies in charge of keeping it accurate.
Earthquake Data
We host copies of Geoscience Australia's global earthquake catalog which is derived exclusively from the output of the Earthquakes@GA web portal. We do this by manually downloading CSV data and converting it to Seiscomp SCXML, then importing it into our server. Because we must do this manually, our cloned earthquake catalog is only updated monthly. Note that information such as phase arrivals is unfortunately not provided.
Soon we will also begin hosting regionally specific catalogs with full phase picks.