Seismological networks

Abstract

The high-quality data recorded by seismographic networks would be of limited value without international cooperation by all countries worldwide in the acquisition and exchange of seismic measurements and waveforms. This cooperation is essential for the location of earthquakes, for understanding the physics of earthquakes, and for studies of Earth’s internal structure, properties, and processes. One of the latest challenges to acquiring, processing, and distributing data from seismographic networks by data centers globally is the automatic performance of traditional tasks in as close to real time as current technology permits.