Here in the News & Features section, you can find important announcements or learn more about our work and the science we support.
Alaska’s subduction zone is congested, but earthquakes can help us see what’s going on with the Yakutat microplate.
A number of web services are moving from service.iris.edu to service.earthscope.org as part of our cloud transition.
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.
Our irisws-metadatachange web service, the primary source of historical changes made to SEED metadata records, is moving as part of our cloud transition.
The Transportable Array, a massive project to seismically map North America, was equipped with all the right tools to measure earthquakes — and surprisingly — hurricanes.
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.
Learn how to create publication-quality maps and visualize geophysical data with the new Introduction to Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) for Geophysics self-paced course.
The PH5 web service tools and the Seattle-based PH5 archiving systems will be decommissioned on September 1, 2026, while the PH5 datasets are being transformed and migrated to the NSF NGF SEED archive.
Both irisws-resp and irisws-sacpz are now integrated into the new FDSN station service. As a result, we are retiring these features as independent services.