News

Information about latest features and products

Categories

Any
earthquake (7)
event (4)
media (2)
products (21)
projects (9)
training (7)

Accurate magnitude estimates in SeisComP

Feb 7, 2024  ·   Products

Precise measurement of amplitudes and calculation of magnitudes for small seismic events observed at local distances have long posed challenges, yet remain crucial for both real-time and non-real-time earthquake monitoring. Recent advancements in SeisComP, particularly in versions 5 and 6, provide new means which may significantly enhance the accuracy of such measurements, thereby elevating the quality of earthquake catalogues.

read more

SeisComP released in version 6.0.0

Nov 2, 2023  ·   Products

We have released SeisComP in the new version 6.0.0. A major focus of this release has been on improving the calculation and configuration of amplitudes and magnitudes, a rework of scardac for more efficient scanning of waveform archives and the advancement of scrttv which now allows plotting continues spectrograms and matured browsing of waveforms at any time now and in the past and association of phase picks for adding previously unknown events to SeisComP.

read more

scrttv: Interactive pick association and full waveform reading in SeisComP 5.4.0

Apr 28, 2023  ·   Products

scrttv has undergone major improvements in SeisComP in version 5.4.0 allowing users to identify and select automatic and manual phase picks interactively which are associated to new origins. This can be done real time but now also very easily for any time in your waveform archive.

read more

ccloc: Faster computation on multiple threads or GPU

Dec 8, 2022  ·   Products

ccloc, our module for automatic detection and classification of seismic signals by cross correlation with template events has received a significant speed up after a major rework of the code now including the support for computation on multiple CPU threads and even on the graphics card (GPU).

read more

CAPS with new web frontend offering increased functionality

Sep 1, 2022  ·   Products

The web frontend of CAPS has been completely redesigned offering much more functionality and interaction while presenting key server information to dedicated users. The re-design includes interactive browsing of CAPS data archives for viewing the availability of data in selected time spans.

read more

sceval and scanloc in pipelines or collaborative systems

Aug 1, 2022  ·   Products

In collaborative SeisComP systems with redundancy or with earthquake solutions imported from foreign systems, external origins are added to your local environment. Such external origins should be treated correctly by your own locally running modules including scanloc or sceval.

read more

EQInfo: First-time release for iOS on App Store

Jun 9, 2022  ·   Products

EQInfo, our mobile app for providing real-time information from earthquake world-wide is now also available for iPhones and iPads and ready for download from the App Store in addition to Google Play for Android.

read more

SeisComP released in version 5.0.0

Jun 9, 2022  ·   Products

We have released SeisComP in the new version 5.0.0. For that release many new and valuable features have been added to modules including graphical user interfaces, daemon modules and command-line tools.

read more

Farewell SeisComP3: End of life reached

May 31, 2022  ·   Products

We say farewell to SeisComP3 which reached its end of life on 31 May, 2022. A while ago it has been replaced by SeisComP, first launched in version 4.0.0 in June, 2020 and now already in version 4.9.3.

read more

Consistent license directory for gempa modules

Feb 17, 2022  ·   Products

For maintaining consistent SeisComP systems with gempa modules we are now dropping the default support for licenses in @CONFIGDIR@/licenses and only read from @DATADIR@/licenses.

read more

TOAST in the media for tsunami alert after the M7.5 earthquake on 14 December 2021.

Dec 14, 2021  ·   Products

Our dedicated tsunami module, TOAST, supports media to provide high-quality tsunami information and alerts to the public after earthquakes which potentially generate tsunamis. As tsunamis may be of high risk to societies living along the ocean’s shores, TOAST plays a key role in saving live and protecting infrastructure.

read more

gsm: New version 1.0.1 released - actions are required

Jul 12, 2021  ·   Products

gsm is our preferred solution for installing and updating SeisComP and gempa modules by a single application. It ensures consistent and up-to-date SeisComP systems and makes their maintenance easy by a very few commands.

read more

SeisComP nightly builds - the bleeding edge pre-release

Apr 16, 2021  ·   Products

We are now providing nightly packages for SeisComP allowing you to download bleeding-edge software packages without compiling yourself. All new features of SeisComP3 have been finally merged into the last release.

read more

SeisComP 4.5.0: Simplification of magnitude configurations requires actions

Mar 1, 2021  ·   Products

In SeisComP 4.5.0 we have simplified the increasingly complex configuration of magnitudes. However, some configurations must be adjusted by you. Other parameters in the global and scautoloc module configurations were changed in earlier SeisComP 4 minor versions.

read more

Support for RHEL continues as CentOS8 will be discontinued

Jan 12, 2021  ·   Products

CentOS8 will be discontinued by RedHat but gempa continues to support RHEL and renamed it’s software repositories from centos to rhel. The CentOS team recently announced the switch from CentOS to CentOS Streams:

read more