Email Request Interface for Data from Seafloor Broadband OBS Networks

An email data request interface is available.
The resultant seismic data is in the SEED format (http://www.iris.edu/manuals/rdseed.htm).


1. Overall Request Sequence

  1. Send request mails(plain text format) to dlevent-bbobs@ohpdmc.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Event Data).
  2. After you got a notification mail for the completion of your request, download data by accessing the specified URL.


2. Request Email Format

2.0 Overall Structures

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.NAME Name
.INST Institute
.MAIL Address
.EMAIL Email Address
.PHONE Phone Number
.FAX Fax Number
.LABEL Label for your record
.END

Data Request Line 1
Data Request Line 2
(more)

2.1 Event Data Request Format

  1. Send Email Request(plain text format) to dlevent-bbobs@ohpdmc.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp to get an Event List.
  2. A reply mail including a resultant event list will be sent to you.
  3. Prepare request mails describing events you want, and send it to dlevent-bbobs@ohpdmc.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
  4. A notification mail will be sent when the requested data is ready.
  5. Download data by accessing the specified URL.


2.1.1 Event List Request Mail Format

The format of data request lines in event list request mails is as follows:

NET Year

NET is network name : BBOBS, and Year is the year of the event list you want (4 digits).

example:

.NAME Taro ZISHIN
.INST Earthquake Research Institute, Univ. Tokyo
.MAIL 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku,Tokyo 113-0032, Japan
.EMAIL example@eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp
.PHONE +81-3-5841-...
.FAX +81-3-5689-...
.LABEL Request No.2
.END

BBOBS 1999

An example of the reply mail:

BBOBS 19991201192306.0 17.647 N 82.356 W 10 6.3 NORTH OF HONDURAS
BBOBS 19991205220034.0 29.920 N 138.689 E 448 5.7 SOUTHEAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
(...)


2.1.2 Event Data Request Mail Format

The format of data request lines in event data request mail is as follows:

NET YearMonDayHourMin

YearMonDayHourMin is the year(4 digits), the month (2 digits), the day (2 digits), the hour (2 digits), the min(2 digits) of the events you want (12 digits in total.)

Copy and paste of the event list will work.

example:

.NAME Taro ZISHIN
.INST Earthquake Research Institute, Univ. Tokyo
.MAIL 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku,Tokyo 113-0032, Japan
.EMAIL example@eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp
.PHONE +81-3-5841-...
.FAX +81-3-5689-...
.LABEL Request No.3
.END

BBOBS 199912052200

An example of the notification mail:

file(1): http://ohpdmc.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pub3/dlevent-bbobs/D20110812122332-224-75/BBOBS199912052200.seed

The URL you should access will be
http://ohpdmc.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pub3/dlevent-bbobs/D20110812122332-224-75/BBOBS199912052200.seed

The list of the prepared data links are displayed in your web browser.
Please save data link(s) to download.