Regions : Africa and Indian Ocean : Antarctica and Temporary Stations : Asia : Australia and Pacific Ocean : Europe : North America : South America and Atlantic Ocean : Acronyms and Information

NETWORK PROGRAM ACRONYMS AND INFORMATION
AFTAC Air Force Technical Applications Center
AGSO Australian Geological Survey Organisation
ANDES Fundacion Andes
ANU Australian National University
ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency
ASL Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory
ASRO Abbreviated Seismic Research Observatories
ATWC Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
AWI Alfred Wegner Institute for Polar Research
BATS Broadband Array in Taiwan for Seismology
BC Boston College (Weston Observatory)
BDSN Berkeley Digital Seismograph Network
All stations have continuous telemetry with remote access.
All stations have 24-bit strong motion channels (Kinemetrics FBA-23’S @ 80 sps triggered and 1 sps contiunuous).
BKS, CMB, HOPS, KCC, MHC, MIN, ORV, SAO, and YBH house Streckeisen STS-1 seismometers.
ARC, JRSC, PKD1, STAN, and WDC house Streckeisen STS-2 seismometers.
BRIB houses a Guralp CMG-3 installed in a borehole at a depth of 35 meters.
The instrumentation at PKD1 will be moved to the new PKD vault when it is completed in the spring of 1996.
More details and waveform data are available online from the Northern California Earthquake Data Center.
BGR Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstaffe
CAS Czech Academy of Sciences
CDSN China Digital Seismograph Network
CERI Center for Earthquake Research and Information, University of Memphis
CNSN Canadian National Seismic Network
COP-NDC Copenhagen National Data Center
DIAS Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
DWWSSN Digital World-Wide Standardized Seismograph Network
ENEL ?
FREESIA Fundamental Research on Earthquake and Earth's Interior Anomaly
GA Geosciences Australia
GI Geophysical Institute
GRSN German Regional Seismic Network
GDSN Global Digital Seismograph Network
GEOFON GEOFOrschungsNetz (Geo Research Network)
GEONET GNS Science, New Zealand
GEOSCOPE GEOSCOPE Program
GSN Global Seismographic Network
GTSN Global Telemetered Seismograph Network
UH University of Hawaii
IDA International Deployment of Accelerometers
IGN Instituto Geografico Nacional
IMS International Monitoring System (CTBTO)
ING Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica
INOGS Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Trieste (Italy)
INSN Iran National Seismic Network
IPRG Institute for Petroleum Research and Geophysics
IRIS Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
KIGAM Korea Broad Band Stations
KISR Kuwait Institute fro Scientific Research
GEUS Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
KSU Kansas State University
LDEO Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
MBMG Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
MEDNET MEDiterranean NETwork
MIDAS MIDdle American Seismograph Network
MNSN Mexican National Seismological Network
NARS Network of Autonomously Registrating Stations
NCDSN New China Digital Seismograph Network
NICE ?
NIED National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention
OGS Ohio Geological Survey
OSU Oregon State University
PACIFIC21 Project PACIFIC21 (formerly POSEIDON and POSEIDON/FREESIA)
PRSN Puerto Rico Seismic Network
PSU Penn State University
RENASS Resau National de Surveillance Sismique
ROB Royal Observatory of Belgium
RSTN Regional Seismic Test Network
SANSN ?
SAS Slovak Academy of Sciences
SLU Saint Louis University
SMU Southern Methodist University
SPGM Service de Physique du Globe, Rabat Agdal, Morocco
SRO Seismic Research Observatories
STS Wielandt and Streckiesen
TERRAscope Caltech Digital Seismograph Network
UA Uni versity of Arizona
UCLA University of California, Los Angeles
ULISSEIS University of LISbon SEISmic network
UNR University of Nevada, Reno
USNSN United States National Seismograph Network
USGS United States Geological Survey
USP Universidade de Sao Paulo
UT University of Trieste
UTA University of Texas, Austin
UU University of Utah
VPI Virginia Polytectnic Institute
WM Western Mediterranean Seismic Network operated by Real Instituto y Observatotio de la Arrmada (ROA) and Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

 

STATUS DEFINITIONS

Existing Station installed and producing data
Planned Funding secured and station installation scheduled
Proposed Funding not secured or being sought for station installation (possibly at alternative site)
Closed Station closed

 

INSTRUMENT ACRONYMS

VBB Very Broad Band, 5 Hz-360s @ 20 sps (5 Hz-250s for GTSN)
BB Broad Band, 5 Hz -20s @ 20sps (1Hz-360s @ 5sps for GEOSCOPE;
15Hz-33s @ 40sps and 5s-33s @ 1sps for USNSN)
VLP Very Long Period (150-3600s @ 0.1sps for GEOSCOPE in BB/VLP configuration)
VLP Very Long Period (20-360 @ 0.1sps  for GEOSCOPE in VBB configuration)
LH Long Period (3-360s @ 1sps for GEOSCOPE)
LP Long Period (20-3600s @ 1sps for GEOSCOPE)
IP Intermediate Period, 1-15s
MP Mid-Period, 1-30s
SP Short Period
HF High Frequency
DG Dual-Gain
GR Gain-Ranged
RA Remotely Accessible
SA Slow Access (2400 baud)
IRIS GSN Definitions:
VBB Very Broad Band (Steckeisen STS-1, Teledyne KS54000, or Teledyne KS36000i)
@20 sps, 1 sps & 0.1 sps continuous
BB Broad Band (Streckeisen STS-2) @ 40 sps, 1 sps, 0.1 sps & 0.01 sps continuous
VLP Very Long Period (LaCoste-Romberg Gravimeter) @ 0.1sps continuous
HF High Frequency (Teledyne GS-13, Streckeisen STS-2, Guralp CMG-3 or Guralp CMG-3Tb)
@ 40 sps continuous, > 80 sps triggered at some sites
BB/HF Broad Band (Streckeisen STS-2, Guralp CMG-3 or Guralp CMG-3TB) @ 40sps, 1sps, and 80sps triggered
LG Low-Gain accelerometer (Kinemetrics FBA-23 or EpiSensor ES-T) @ 100 sps triggered, 1 sps continuous
24-bit Data acquisition system with 24-bit digitizer
144dB/DG Data acquisition system with 16-bit digitizer with both high and low gain channels for 144dB dynamic range
RA Real-time access
Dial-up Dial-up access
Accessibility:
NRT Near realtime
RA Remotely accesible through phone line
I Internet connection
Open and Closed dates generally refer to approximate dates when recording of continuous, broadband,
digital data started and terminated, respectively, but does not include periods of data outage.
FEDERATION Backbone NETWORK STATION (*)
A subset of about one hundred fifty stations chosen on the basis of hardware standards
(VBB or BB and VLP, 3-component, dynamic range greater than 100db), noise characteristics,
geographical location, and status (installed or installation imminent).