EarthScope Consortium

WEBINAR RECORDING Opportunistic Geophysics: Repurposing Inertial Measurement Units for Planetary, Field, and Classroom Seismology Presented by: Katie Gansler, PhD candidate at the University of Maryland Watch here 📽️ https://loom.ly/M0pgtN0

A M7.0 earthquake occurred on the Tibetan Plateau. The collision of the Indian and Eurasian plate results in earthquake activity in the region. Today's earthquake occurred on a normal fault, which helps accommodate extension of the plateau interior. Access event data ➡️ https://loom.ly/AESOYTQ

New guides in the GeoLab documentation can walk you through managing the software dependencies you need to run your analysis. Whether you're working on your research or building materials for students, this will get you rolling. Details ➡️ https://loom.ly/dPEtEIU

Our 2026 season of technical courses has wrapped up! Across eight courses offered, over 400 participants completed a course and earned a credential badge. Learn more about our range of technical courses offered, or sign up to take one of our asynchronous courses today! ⬇️ https://loom.ly/UAb99HM

Made possible by a generous gift from the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation, the Emerging Investigator Awards will provide funding and technical support to help early career researchers conduct innovative field-based geophysical research using NSF NGF instrumentation. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/7quzpAs

Our staff recently upgraded all the borehole strainmeter/seismometer stations in Yellowstone with a new piece of kit that replaces problematically aging dataloggers. Read about it ➡️ https://loom.ly/vBLmuwA

🚨 NSF NGF webinar reminder! 🎤 Opportunistic Geophysics: Repurposing Inertial Measurement Units for Planetary, Field, and Classroom Seismology 📍Zoom 🗓️ October 22 at 12pm - 1pm MT. Haven't registered yet? Click to get a Zoom link: https://loom.ly/hms8gPs

UPCOMING WEBINAR Advances in Tsunami Source Imaging using the Adjoint-State Inversion Method Presenter: Dr. Saeed Mohanna (UC Berkeley) Register to attend ➡️ https://loom.ly/2O_qM1o

The PI of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the South Pole in Antarctica, has won a Nobel Prize for detecting elusive cosmic particles. 👏 Did you know IceCube also helped expand the Global Seismographic Network? Read all about it here ➡️ https://loom.ly/hj5qWYc

As part of our ongoing transition to modern, cloud-native infrastructure, we will be implementing limits on the volume of data and products that can be downloaded per hour and per day starting October 26. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/NgHJL_c

A new Caldera Chronicle, written by intern Lexi Kenis, explores what it takes to service Yellowstone National Park's geophysical monitoring networks. Read here ➡️ https://loom.ly/KsFjOa4

We're excited to see everyone here at #GSAConnects2026 in Denver, CO! Stop by our booth # 302 to learn about offerings from the NSF National Geophysical Facility and take home some geophysical goodies!

On the morning of October 9, Pitaloza Arriba in Panama was rocked by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake at a depth of ~13 km. Learn more & access event data ➡️ https://loom.ly/BLV17gQ

The NSF NGF will be at GSA in Denver, CO next week! Come find us at booth 302 in the exhibitor hall to chat with staff and pick up goodies. See the full schedule of our GSA happenings ➡️ https://loom.ly/lUjIxHc

Older PH5 experiments have been updated to resolve data inconsistencies, improve quality, and better align datasets with current PH5 standards. Learn more about these efforts ➡️ https://loom.ly/ifex2ZQ

UPCOMING WEBINAR Opportunistic Geophysics: Repurposing Inertial Measurement Units for Planetary, Field, and Classroom Seismology Presenter: Katie Gansler (PhD candidate, University of Maryland) Register to attend ➡️ https://loom.ly/hms8gPs

As part of our ongoing transition to modern, cloud-native infrastructure, we will require user authentication for all data and product downloads beginning December 15, 2026. Read the full details ➡️ https://loom.ly/tuoN7m8

Yesterday afternoon at ~2:05 pm PDT, the Seattle area was shaken up by a magnitude 4.2 earthquake. But this isn't unusual at all! Learn about the three types of earthquakes that can occur in the PNW region ➡️ https://loom.ly/WBQvUo0

A new aftershock catalog reveals how machine-learning can facilitate our understanding of tectonically complex environments — and where it struggles. Read the story ➡️ https://loom.ly/AfWG34A

Our team continues to grow! EarthScope is hiring a GeoWorkforce Associate I (remote, U.S.) to assist our workforce development activities in the geosciences. Learn more & apply ➡️ https://loom.ly/ndNPGtA

Happy #fieldworkfriday! EarthScope engineers ventured out to Yellowstone National Park to service monitoring stations around the park.

Our community’s access to the Seismic Analysis Code (SAC) is now being released as open source software as the SAC Community Edition. Learn more ➡️ https://loom.ly/ciqLSoQ

We have new UAS capabilities! In replacing our drones for structure from motion imaging, we found an opportunity to add lidar and multispectral instruments. Details ➡️ https://loom.ly/YDYeplw

Want to run a Jupyter notebook in our cloud compute hub from the comfort of your local VS Code window? Here's how to quickly connect to the GeoLab kernel. 👉 https://loom.ly/B7IPynw

Using a fiber optic cable and Distributed Acoustic Sensing, researchers were able to see where the pattern of raindrops hitting the ground turned into runoff flow, offering a potential way to monitor flash flooding. Read the story ➡️ https://loom.ly/-h-28zA

Join the EarthScope team! We're hiring a Staff Accountant II - Generalist (remote, US) to support day-to-day accounting operations, maintain accurate financial records, and assist employees and vendors with routine financial matters. Learn more & apply ➡️ earthscope.org/careers/

Part of our seismic data archive is now available directly from AWS at no cost to the user (or to us), no limitation on the user’s location, and with no account-based permissions or authentication required. Details ➡️ https://loom.ly/zEDn9uA

Two web applications for visualizing seismic data quality metrics (MUSTANG Databrowser and MUSTANGular) have moved to new URLs—please update your bookmarks. Details ➡️ https://loom.ly/RcEJaGw

We asked the MsPASS team to share what has changed since the course first came to GeoLab in 2024 and what those changes have made possible for teaching and seismic data workflows. Here's what they had to say: https://loom.ly/jH8UVk4

EarthScope Consortium, the operator of the NSF National Geophysical Facility (NGF), is excited to announce the launch of a new NSF NGF website! Visit our new website now ➡️ https://ngf.earthscope.org

One of the major benefits of migrating our data archives to a cloud-native architecture is that we can offer new ways to interact with data. Here's a cool example using our SDK—including a notebook you can run for yourself. Details ➡️ https://loom.ly/a3DbBk0

The Yakutat microplate is crammed in Alaska's tectonic armpit. Using earthquakes to image it, a recent study showed that this microplate is larger than we thought. Read the story ➡️ https://loom.ly/kOOje2Q

Web services are moving from service.iris.edu to service.earthscope.org as part of our cloud transition: irisws-virtualnetwork, and irisws-evalresp. Read the full announcement ➡️ https://loom.ly/HVibwks

EarthScope is shifting to the cloud for ds.iris.edu website content & applications.   You may experience disruption to service, such as an application being down or a web page being unavailable. This is temporary. If you experience any difficulties, please reach out to us at help@earthscope.org.

Imagine you could observe a hurricane as it makes landfall by using the same methods as seismologists — by listening to waves rippling through the environment around you. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/gkfBEbY

Our irisws-metadatachange web service, the primary source of historical changes made to SEED metadata records, is moving as part of our cloud transition. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/NVbyoSQ

Last week, Dr. Cassie Hanagan shared her work using satellite optical geodesy to identify instances of onshore surface deformation from the June Venezuela earthquake doublet. Watch the recording here ➡️ https://loom.ly/kdRQNjM

Our partners at the Center for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH) have put together an ArcStoryMap detailing the Trishuli floods. Learn more here ➡️ https://loom.ly/km2uiu0

Reminder! We're hiring for an Engineer II - Polar position. If you have experience managing multiple geophysical and network field projects of varying complexity across different locations, including polar latitudes, this might be the job for you. Learn more and apply ➡️ https://loom.ly/A_rKSEw

EarthScope Data Services is migrating NSF's NGF Seismology data products to the AWS cloud. This migration consolidates our data products and product repositories under a single, uniform interface, eliminating the need to navigate between multiple legacy sites. Learn more ➡️ https://loom.ly/pNjchXU

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. Learn more & enroll ➡️ https://loom.ly/G-J1j0Q

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. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/HzIxjBs

Cloud Foundations has been updated! This course introduces concepts and skills needed to work effectively in GeoLab. The revised course will set you up to use a new set of instructional notebooks focused on accessing, exploring, and analyzing data. Check it out: https://loom.ly/VcYMLPg

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. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/a4TMcEA

Reminder: the irisws-timeseries web service and its associated microservices will be retired this week. www.earthscope.org/news/retirem...

Whales are among Earth’s most intelligent and fascinating creatures—and are increasingly imperiled by human activity. These threatened giants create seismic and acoustic signals, allowing scientists to explore existing data in innovative ways. Read the story: https://loom.ly/ZSkKwXM

Legacy web services irisws-traveltime and irisws-distaz that offer seismic travel-time and distance-azimuth calculations will soon be retired. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/1UYiQWE

Starting August 25, 2026, network operators will have a new way to submit StationXML metadata to the EarthScope-operated NSF National Geophysical Facility. This approach uses a new Dropoff System now currently in use for miniSEED submission. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/SjlbObk