Seismic waveform data from the UK National Seismometer Network

This is the raw data collected by the stations of the UK National Seismometer Network. Continuous data is stored as day long miniSEED files on the Edinburgh LINUX filesystem. Data is present for 170 past and present stations, with the oldest data dating from 2001 and new data being added in near real-time. This data is accessible via the BGS EIDA node (eida.bgs.ac.uk). The waveform files are accompanied by metadata that allows the raw data to be converted to useful units, as well as the location of the stations. All stations are indexed but not all are still active and will be flagged accordingly.

Date (Creation): 2001

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608603

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Seismometers
Seismic waves

dataCentre

UK Location (INSPIRE)

Keywords

NERC_DDC

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: licenceOGL

Other constraints: Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints: Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier: GB
ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision

Geographic identifier: UK [id=139300]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Geographic identifier: UKM
ISO 3166_2 2009 revision

Begin date: 2001

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

Distribution format

Name	Version
miniSEED file (.mseed)
XML file (.xml)

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://eida.bgs.ac.uk/	BGS EIDA Node

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/helicorder/heli.html	BGS Seismology Webpage - Real-time Seismograms

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Other: dataset

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: The data was collected at stations spread throughout the UK. The vast majority of data was recorded using broadband seismometers connected to 24 bit digitisers. These instruments record ground velocity in three orthogonal directions. The three resulting channels are stored as separate files. Current stations are telemetered in real-time to Edinburgh and directly archived with a sample rate of 100 Hz.