IRISSeismic (version 1.0.5)

getNetwork: Retrieve Network metadata from IRIS DMC

Description

The getNetwork method obtains network metadata from the IRIS DMC station web service and returns it in a dataframe.

Usage

getNetwork(obj, network, station, location, channel,
           starttime, endtime, includerestricted,
           latitude, longitude, minradius, maxradius)

Arguments

obj

IrisClient object

network

character string with the two letter seismic network code

station

character string with the station code

location

character string with the location code

channel

character string with the three letter channel code

starttime

POSIXct class specifying the starttime (GMT)

endtime

POSIXct class specifying the endtime (GMT)

includerestricted

optional logical identifying whether to report on restricted data (default=FALSE)

latitude

optional latitude used when specifying a location and radius

longitude

optional longitude used when specifying a location and radius

minradius

optional minimum radius used when specifying a location and radius

maxradius

optional maximum radius used when specifying a location and radius

Value

• A dataframe with the following columns:

  network, description, starttime, endtime, totalstations

  Rows are ordered by network.

Details

The getNetwork method utilizes the station web service to return data for all stations that meet the criteria defined by the arguments and returns that data in a dataframe. Each row of the dataframe represents a unique network.

Each of the arguments network, station, location or channel may contain a valid code or a wildcard expression, e.g. "BH?" or "*". Empty strings are converted to "*". Otherwise, the ascii string that is used for these values is simply inserted into the web service request URL.

For more details see the http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/station/1/{web service documentation}.

References

The IRIS DMC station web service:

http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/station/1/

This implementation was inspired by the functionality in the obspy station() method. http://docs.obspy.org/packages/autogen/obspy.iris.client.Client.station.html

See Also

IrisClient-class

Examples

# Open a connection to IRIS DMC webservices
iris <- new("IrisClient")

# Date of Nisqually quake
starttime <- as.POSIXct("2001-02-28",tz="GMT")
endtime <- starttime + 2*24*3600

# Use the getEvent web service to determine what events happened in this time period
events <- getEvent(iris,starttime,endtime,6.0)
events

# Event #3 is the Nisqually quake in Washington State
e <- events[3,]

# Which seismic networks have BHZ stations within 5 degrees of the quake epicenter?
networks <- getNetwork(iris,"*","*","*","BHZ",starttime,endtime,
                       lat=e$latitude,lon=e$longitude,maxradius=5)
networks