How an astrophysical observatory became two seismometers’ new home
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the South Pole, helped expand a global-scale earthquake network.
The breath of a volcano: Volcán Masaya’s subtle underground activity unveiled by InSAR
It’s often said that volcanoes give plenty of warning before they erupt. But what happens when they don’t? A recent study uses the satellite remote sensing technique, InSAR, to illuminate the behavior of Volcán Masaya, an unpredictable volcano located just 20 kilometers from Nicaragua’s capital city.
User authentication for NSF NGF data and product downloads
As part of our ongoing transition to modern, cloud-native infrastructure that provides exceptional scalability and performance, we will require user authentication for all data and product downloads beginning December 15, 2026.
Announcing Open Source SAC Community Edition v103.0
Our community’s access to the Seismic Analysis Code (SAC) is now being released as open source software as the SAC Community Edition.
The irisws-virtualnetwork and irisws-evalresp web services are moving
A number of web services are moving from service.iris.edu to service.earthscope.org as part of our cloud transition.
Migration of ds.iris.edu website content to the NSF NGF cloud
EarthScope is undertaking a platform shift to the cloud for the ds.iris.edu website content and applications, which may temporarily affect access to certain applications or web pages.
Giving new life to old data: 2010s seismic data reveal striking evidence of a hurricane’s landfall
The Transportable Array, a massive project to seismically map North America, was equipped with all the right tools to measure earthquakes — and surprisingly — hurricanes.
Migration of NSF’s NGF Seismology Data Products to the Cloud
EarthScope Data Services is migrating NSF’s NGF Seismology data products to the AWS cloud as part of our strategic initiative to modernize the data and metadata access capabilities of NSF’s National Geophysical Facility (NSF NGF) in the cloud.
Retirement of EarthScope’s on-premises seismic archiving system
What you need to know This is one of the final steps in a multi-year effort to move EarthScope’s seismic data archiving — nearly 40 years’ worth, hosted at the University of Washington — into the AWS cloud. We know recent changes have come in quick succession, and we appreciate your patience as we complete … Continued
Retirement of the irisws-timeseries web service
EarthScope Data Services will be retiring the irisws-timeseries web service and its associated microservices as part of our strategic initiative to refine the NSF National Geophysical Facility’s portfolio of data and metadata access capabilities in the cloud.