Last update: November 21, 2008

Seismological institutes and observatories

• Seismosurfing the Internet (Steven Malone)
• World-wide Seismology Research Institutes
• European-Mediterranean Observatories

Major centers

• Asia, ASEAN Earthquake Information Center, Jakpus, Indonesia.
• Austria, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation, Preparatory Commission (CTBTO PrepCom), Vienna.
• France, European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC / CSEM) European-Mediterranean centre for parameter data.
• Japan, Earthquake Research Institute Tokyo.
• Japan, NIED. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention.
• Russia, Synapse Science Center . Moscow IRIS Data Analysis Center (MDC) at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
• South America, Ceresis. Centro Regional de Sismologia pare America del Sud. (in spannish)
• UK, International Seismological Centre (ISC) Final collection, analysis and publication of standard earthquake information from all over the world.
• USA, IRIS Consortium. The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology Seismological research, Education, Earthquake Hazard Mitigation, Verification of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
• USA, NEIC. National Earthquake Information Center of the U.S. Geological Survey.
• USA, CTBT R&D. US Department of Energy. Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) Research & Development Program. IMS, Seismology, Radionuclide, Hydroacoustics, Infrasound, OSI, SPace-based, ADP.
• USA, Prototype International Data Centre (IDC). Seismic, Seismicity, Earthquakes, Nuclear, Nuclear testban treaty, Geophysics, Geology, Map earthquake

European institutes (not included in seismosurf or observatory list)

• Geophysical Institute, Stuttgart, Germany.
• Israel National Data Center, Israel.
• University of Zaragoza, Seismology Group, Spain.
• Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Mines, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• University of Leeds, Geophysics, Leeds, UK.

Asian institutes (not included in seismosurf)

• University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China.
• Meteorological and Geophysical Agency, Jakarta, Indonesia.
• Seismology & Volcanology Research Department, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan.
• Japan Meteorological Agency, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan.
• Meteorological Service of Singapore and its Seismological Monitoring unit, Singapore.

Geoscience institutes - web-addresses

• European Geoscience University Departments
• Geoscience Institutes in Germany
• Geoscience Institutes in the UK
• Non-European Geoscience University Departments
• Geoscience Internet Links
• Yahoo Geology and Geophysics site. Fairly general overview (US)

Professional Organisations

• American Geophysical Union
• CORDIS (European Commission) COmmunity Research and Development Information Service
• Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft
• Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
• Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society
• European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
• European Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology
• European Science Foundation
• European Geoscience Union
• European Seismological Commission
• Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior
• International Council for Science
• International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
• Seismological Society of America
• Society of Exploration Geophysicists
• Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics
• Union of International Associations

World Wide Live seismograms

• Live seismograms at observatories throughout the world

Seismological data

• ORFEUS links to seismological data
  Overview of on-line available earthquake parameter data and BB and LP waveform data

Projects

• Center for Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics (CCIG).
  CCIG is a community organization in the making which will develop and maintain computational infrastructure for geodynamic modeling.
• Cooperative Institute for Deep Earth Research (CIDER)
• Earthscope, USA.
  A USA multifaceted initiative to investigate the structure and evolution of the North American continent and the physical processes controlling earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
• ESC-SESAME Unified Seismic Hazard model for the European Mediterranean region.
• EUROPROBE, A Lithosperic Dynamics programme.
• FREESIA , Japan
  Fundamental Research on Earthquakes and Earth'S Interior Anomalies.
• GSHAP, Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program.
• IDNDR, International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.
• ILP, International Lithosphere Program
• MIDAS, Central America Middle America Seismograph Consortium.
• Ocean Hemisphere network Project, Japan
  Former POSEIDON. Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo.
• The PLATES Project, Research into plate tectonics and geological reconstruction
• The Reference Earth Model (REM)
• Scattering and heterogeneity in the Earth
  Observational and theoretical studies of the medium heterogeneity and wave propagation and scattering in heterogeneous media. Organiser: Haruo Sato
• SCEC Community Modeling Environment (CME)
  The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) are developing a geophysics and IT collaboratory that will perform seismic hazard analysis and geophysical modeling.
• The ESC “Seismic microzonation” working group (SeMWG) has established a website in order to exchange information and knowledge on seismic microzonation in Europe.
• Study of the Earth's Interior (SEDI group) Multidisciplinary group within the IUGG.
• Seismic wave Propagation and Imaging in Complex media (SPICE): a European network
  A Marie Curie Research Training Network in the 6th Framework Programmme of the EC. Its focus is research and training in computational seismology.
• SW3D, Seismic Waves in Complex 3-D Structures. Project head Vlastislav Cerveny
• Transfrontier, Rapid Transfrontier Seismic Data Exchange Network. (Transfrontier Group)
• TROMOS
  Researching, recovering, restoring and re-establishing of the historical heritage of scientific earthquake observation in Italy.

Related Science Organisations

• Geography related sites
  World-wide geography related sites. Unclassified. Maintained at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
• Global GIS
  An initiative of USGS and AGI to make the GIS database readily avialable.
• Global Geodynamics Project (GGP)
  An international program of observations of temporal variations in the Earth's gravity field using superconducting gravimeters. Phase 2: 2003-2007.
• Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS - US initiative)
• Global Monitoring for Environmental and Security (GMES - EC/ESA initiative)
• Global Positioning System (GPS)
  US National Coast Guard site with references.
• Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
• International Center for Earth Tides
  Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Data Analaysis Services, FAGS. World Data Center-C for Earth Tides.
• International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific.
  Coordination by UNESCO
• Integrated Global Observing Strategy (IGOS)
• International Tsunami Information Center
• Joint Oceanographic Institutions
  Managing worldwide cooperative research programs for the oceanographic community
• National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE). Papers, links, softwar and data on earthquake engineering from Berkeley University.
• NAVSTAR GPS Joint program
  University NAVSTAR Consortium. promoting the use of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for high-accuracy geosciences research.
• Tsunami links
• Tsunami Research for Oregon Coast
• Tsunami Lab, Russian Academy of Sciences, Computing Lab, Novosibirsk.
• UNAVCO
  UNAVCO, Inc. is a non-profit membership-governed organization that supports and promotes Earth science by advancing high-precision geodetic and strain techniques such as the Global Positioning System (GPS).
• UNIDATA
  University Corporation for Atmospheric Research enabling Universities to Acquire and use Atmospheric and related data in geoscience education and research.
• U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center

Educational

• ORFEUS Educational links for seismology
  Available lecture notes, books (academic level)
  (Advanced) amaeur seismology
  Projects and programs
  Educational resources

Electronic Publications

• Geoscience Journals
  Comprehensive list of Journals, searchable publisher databases, newsletters and their respective links. Australian site
• BSSA Electronic version For SSA members only.
• Seismological Research Letters
  Some parts of the publications are publicly available, a.o. Opinion, the Electronic Seismologist and EduQuakes.
• Natural Hazard and Earth Systems EGS journal on-line available.
• Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics discussion EGS fully Electronic Journal
• Preprint Archive at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics. Mostly physics.
• Effective Scientific Electronic Publishing
  About (La)TeX and PDF mainly. Author: Markus Gänther Kuhn, Cambridge, UK.
• LaTeX to PDF
  Using LaTeX to create Quality PDF Documents for the World Wide Web. Author: D.P.Story, Akron, Ohio.
• Effective Scientific Electronic Publishing by Markus G. Kuhn, Cambridge University. Practical guidelines fo writing a scientific paper in LaTeX and Electronic Publishing.
• Reproducable electronic documents
  Overvieuw and suggestions on filing scientific computational research. Authors: Matt Schwab and Jon Claerbout
• Free issue of Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica (January 2004, vol 48, no 1)

Geo(physical) data relevant to seismology

• Physical Reference Data
  The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Reference on Constants, Units and Uncertainties.
• Modelling the Earth's rotation IERS conventions
• International Earth Rotation Service
  Provides a.o. Earth orientation parameters for: Terrestrial navigation/positioning, Geophysical research. Specificly relevant it identifies if leap seconds will be introduced and are therefore important in maintaining the seismological recording timing units correct.
• Physical Reference Data
  Physics Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Physical constants, Units and measurement Uncertainties, Nuclear physics data, etc.
• Thermodynamic Data and Property Calculation Sites
  Thermodynamics research Laboratory, University of Illinois.
• COSMOS
  The Consortium of Organisations for Strong-Motion Observation Systems. US national co-ordinating organisation.
• Strong motion Data
  Overview of available acceleration data on the internet. Maintained by David Wald at USGS.
• European Strong-motion Database EC-project to put the Imperial College Acceleration data database on the web.
• The Euro_Mediterranean Intensity Database (EMID)
  Publicly available standardized intensity data
• International GPS Service for Geodynamics
  GPS data and data products on line in near real time. Sponsored by NASA and managed by Jet Propulsion Lab in the US.
• National Spatial Data Infrastructure
  Geospatial Data Clearinghouse Entry Points. Find information about geospatial data available in the US.
• Global Geodynamic Project
  Information System and Data Center. Data base for GGP superconducting gravimeter data.
• Geophysical Data from the Solid Earth
  NOAA and World-data center A, USA. Topography, Geomagnetism, Gravity, Heatflow and Environmental and Natural Hazards.
• World Data Center-C2 Geomagnetism, Geomagnetic Data Services, Kyoto, Japan.
• World stress map
  Data base on contemporary tectonic stress in the Earth's crust. Description of, access to, and retrieval of the data.
• JPL Imaging Radar Radar images (SAR) can be obtained for scientific research on request. Not free of charge.
• EROS Data Center
  U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation Systems Data Center. Satelite data archive, US National and World Data Center.
• 30 sec grid topography in binary grid appropriate for GMT.
• Eurimage Earth Science data distributor - EiNet on-line browser. Commercial satelite picture distributor.

USA

• National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project
  USGS Seismic Hazard Maps, Data, and Documentation.
• Division of Mines and Geology, California Department of Conservation.
  Available Publications, Guidebooks, Statewide and Regional Products, and General Interest Items

Middle East and North Africa

• Middle East and North Africa project at Cornell University. Information and dataserver
• Middle East Seismological Forum (MESF)
  A regional internet site. Information on scientific activities data acquisition and publications on seismology and related subjects in the region.
• North African Lithospheric Database
• Ground-based Nuclear Explosion Monitoring Program
  Regional Seismic Database of the Middle East and North Africa Maintained by LLNL.

Maps

• The fascinating world of maps and mapping
  University of Utrecht. Contains more than 7000 links. Up-to-date.
• PCL Map Collection