SCOTER - Software package for multiple-earthquake relocation by using static and source-specific station correction terms

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We present SCOTER, an open-source Python programming package that is designed to relocate multiple seismic events by using direct P- and S-wave station correction terms. The package implements static and shrinking-box source-specific station terms techniques extended to regional and teleseimic distances and adopted for probabilistic, non-linear, global-search location for large-scale multiple-event location. This program provides robust relocation results for seismic event sequences over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales by applying empirical corrections for the biasing effects of 3-D velocity structure. Written in the Python programming language, SCOTER is run as a stand-alone command-line tool (requiring no knowledge of Python) and also provides a set of sub-commands to develop required input files (e.g. phase files, travel-time grid files, configuration) and export relocation results (such as hypocenter parameters, travel-time residuals) in different formats -- routine but non-trivial tasks that can consume much user time. This package can be used for relocating data sets in local, regional, and teleseimic scales.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.2.1.2019.002
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggw405
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.2.1.2017.001
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.2312/GFZ.b103-19056
Metadata Access http://doidb.wdc-terra.org/oaip/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:doidb.wdc-terra.org:6635
Provenance
Creator Nooshiri, Nima ORCID logo; Heimann, Sebastian; Tilmann, Frederik ORCID logo; Dahm, Torsten ORCID logo; Saul, Joachim
Publisher GFZ Data Services
Contributor Nooshiri, Nima
Publication Year 2019
Rights GNU General Public License, Version 3, 29 June 2007, Copyright © 2019 Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences; https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
OpenAccess true
Contact Nooshiri, Nima (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany)
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Language English
Resource Type Software
Format application/octet-stream
Size 4 Files
Version 0.1
Discipline Geosciences