ESM 2.0 (released July 2020)

The Engineering Strong-Motion database (ESM 2.0) provides waveforms relative to events with magnitude ≥ 4.0, mainly recorded in the European-Mediterranean regions and the Middle-East. ESM 2.0 is targeted to applied seismologists, earthquake engineers, professional engineers, geologists, and policy makers. ESM 2.0 main features are: access to authoritative strong-motion data and metadata; manual processing and quality check of waveforms; standardization of waveforms and metadata according to the Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks (FDSN); data interoperability with other datasets and open-source software (e.g. ObsPy).

ESM 2.0 was developed and maintained by the ESM WG of INGV under the general coordination of the ORFEUS strong-motion management committee, and has been supported by the European Plate Observing System (EPOS, GA 676564) and Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Research Infrastructure Alliance for Europe (SERA, GA 730900).

ESM 2.0 includes data from 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 2.0 also includes: European Strong-Motion Database (FP5 1998-2002), the ITalian ACcelerometric Archive (ITACA, up to 2025), the Strong Ground Motion Database of Turkiye and the HEllenic Accelerogram Database (HEAD). All waveforms stored in the ESM 2.0 database keep track of original data creators (ie. seismic networks) and data mediators (ie. eida or other online or offline datasets). This metadata, together with full licensing information is included with every waveform available.

Tools

dyna-convert.py - python code to convert ESM-ASDF files to the most popular seismic formats (MSEED, SAC, GSE, SEGY, among others). Requires ObsPy. See the Supported Formats section of the ObsPy modul Stream.write for a list of supported formats.

Additional Information

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