The International Seismological Centre (ISC) Earthquake Toolbox for MATLAB: Interactive Access to Earthquake Observations and Parameters
Description:
The ISC Earthquake Toolbox for MATLAB is designed to offer access to parametric earthquake data curated by the International Seismological Centre (ISC). The ISC produces the definitive global earthquake catalogue by combining seismic phase arrivals from ~150 agencies in ~100 counties. The ISC Bulletin also includes earthquake parameters, reported by many agencies, such as hypocentres, magnitudes, and moment tensors, and is freely accessible, searchable and downloadable in a range of widely used seismic formats through the ISC website (www.isc.ac.uk/iscbulletin). The ISC Earthquake Toolbox for MATLAB allows users to query the ISC Bulletin via a graphical user interface (GUI) within the MATLAB environment.
The GUI replicates the search options of the ISC website and reads the parametric earthquake data into MATLAB data. Several live scripts are included to demonstrate to the user how to interrogate the ISC Bulletin data. Examples include comparing different magnitude types and authors, and plotting moment tensors from the ISC Bulletin. The toolbox enables the unrestricted exploration of earthquake location data, phase arrivals, magnitudes and amplitude measurements as well as earthquake moment tensors. The toolbox also allows 3D visualisation of earthquake distributions, 2D and 3D moment tensor plotting, as well as introducing new functionalities such as plotting moment tensors within MATLAB mapping toolbox figures. It is anticipated that the ISC Earthquake Toolbox for MATLAB will be used as a teaching tool to explore the wealth of earthquake data available at the ISC, as well as a tool for researchers to build more complex applications upon. The toolbox is publicly available to download via GitHub (github.com/tomgarth/ISC_Earthquake_Toolbox) and MathWorks file exchange (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/167786-isc-earthquake-toolbox).
Session: Advances in Reliable Earthquake Source Parameter Estimation [Poster]
Type: Poster
Date: 4/16/2025
Presentation Time: 08:00 AM (local time)
Presenting Author: Thomas
Student Presenter: No
Invited Presentation:
Poster Number: 25
Authors
Thomas Garth Presenting Author Corresponding Author tom.garth@isc.ac.uk International Seismological Centre |
Ryan Gallacher ryan@isc.ac.uk International Seismological Centre |
Kostas Leptokaropoulos kleptoka@mathworks.com MathWorks |
Natalia Poiata natalia@infp.ro National Institute for Earth Physics |
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The International Seismological Centre (ISC) Earthquake Toolbox for MATLAB: Interactive Access to Earthquake Observations and Parameters
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Advances in Reliable Earthquake Source Parameter Estimation