ESM info

Tools

Processing web frontend - a web interface for waveform processing on ESM database. Registered users can select waveforms, do their own processing and save the resulting waveforms on their personal computer
dyna-convert.py - python code to convert ESM files to the most popular seismic formats (MSEED, SAC, GSE, SEGY, among others). Requires ObsPy

Products

ESM strong-motion flat-file 2018 - a parametric table which contains metadata and intensity measures of manually processed waveforms recorded by accelerometers

ESM release 1.0

This version of the Engineering Strong-Motion database (ESM) has been developed in the framework of the European Project NERA (Network of European Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Risk Assessment and Mitigation), Network Activity 3: Networking acceleration networks and SM data users. The database is maintained by WG5 of ORFEUS. ESM allows users to query earthquake and station information and download earthquake waveforms and response spectra for events with magnitude ≥ 4.0 mainly recorded in the European-Mediterranean and the middle-East regions. ESM is fully compatible with the European Integrated Data Archive (EIDA), a distributed data centre established to securely archive seismic waveform data and related metadata, based on international seismological standards. ESM also includes: European Strong-Motion Database (FP5 1998-2002), the ITalian ACcelerometric Archive (ITACA), the Strong Ground Motion Database of Turkiye and the HEllenic Accelerogram Database (HEAD). Read more...
Data search

Records compatible with target spectra

Citation

The Database have to be acknowledged as: "Luzi L, Puglia R, Russo E & ORFEUS WG5 (2016). Engineering Strong Motion Database, version 1.0. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Observatories & Research Facilities for European Seismology. doi: 10.13127/ESM"

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This site provides access to the Engineering Strong-Motion database (ESM), containing strong-motion records and associated earthquake, station and waveform parameters. The user can interactively search the fully relational database and download the selected strong-motion records and associated parameters. The earthquake and station metadata are obtained and constantly kept up to date from authoritative sources, and therefore meta-data may change over time even in file headers. Although all the parameters have been checked by analysts, no warranty, implicit or explicit is attached to the data. Every risk due to the improper use of data or the use of inaccurate information is assumed by the user.
In no event shall ORFEUS (Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology) or its sub-awardees be liable to any party for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages, including lost profits, arising out of the use of the works, even if ORFEUS or its subawardees have been advised of the possibility of such damage.
The license of each waveform has been assigned by the data provider. Providers should be acknowledged according to the International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks (FDSN).