Waveform Data
This is the actual seismic data. AusPass primarily hosts data collected by ANU researchers but also experiments conducted via ANSIR equipment loans, as well as other datasets from people who simply asked us to host their data. We also host some waveform data from external agencies and projects, such as GeoScience Australia's national network AU and the global network IU. We do not have access to Geoscience Australia's full archive, so you would have to ask them for access to historical data.
Venn diagram of where AU network data is stored online
QA/QC
Where possible, we will fix obvious timing errors such as constant time offsets and clock drifts and host the "fixed" version of the waveform data. Sometimes timing corrections cannot be reliably fixed (e.g. clocks jumping around too much intraday) and they are left as-is. We do not fix north azimuth misalignments. We keep copies of the original raw data as well as a list of timing corrections and are happy to facilitate access to these upon request. If you see any issues, please let us know.
Station Data
For all of the networks and stations in our waveform archive, we also host the accompanying STATION metadata (which includes response information). For networks outside of our control (e.g. AU and IU) we download this metadata from IRIS/Earthscope. Any issues with this data should be directed at the respective agencies in charge of keeping it accurate.
Earthquake Data
In collaboration with Geoscience Australia, we host copies of their global catalog which is derived from the output of the Earthquakes@GA web portal. Because we must do this manually, our cloned earthquake catalog is only updated monthly. Note that information such as phase arrivals is not provided.