Question
Request data by station location
How can I find out what stations IRIS has data for that fall within a latitude/longitude bounding box?
Answer
A user can find seismic data by station using a latitude/longitude bounding box in a number of different tools:
IRIS Web Services
Use the station service to search for available data within a specified latitude and longitude. You can also search by distance from a lat/lon point. Make sure you specify the includeavailability parameter to TRUE, and the matchtimeseries parameter to TRUE.
Example
Click to load example query that returns StationXML
For more information, please go to http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/station/docs/1/help
JWEED
In the Map screen, the user can set a latitude/longitude bounding box, then use the Select Networks screen to select and map stations from the defined area. Read the JWEED Manual »
MetaData Aggregator
The MetaData Aggregator (MDA) returns metadata summaries from the IRIS DMC database including data availability and links to further services. Five levels of summary are available: network list, network, station, location and channel
Input parameters are specified in the URI as extensions of the form:
http://ds.iris.edu/mda/[network]/[station]/[location]/[channel]
Use -- for [location] to specify a blank (space-space) location code.
Example
Network = UW
Station = ASH (Crater, Mt. St. Helens)
http://ds.iris.edu/mda/UW/ASH
data is available in the archive from 1981/05/13 to 1981/09/15
