| Acronym |
Definition |
| AASG |
Association of American State Geologists |
| AFOSR |
Air Force Office of Scientific Research |
| AFTAC |
US National Data Center |
| ANSS |
Advanced National Seismic System |
| ASL |
Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory |
| ATM |
NSF Division of Atmospheric Sciences |
| BREQ_FAST |
Batch REQuests Fast (an e-mail based data request tool) |
| CDMG |
California Division of Mining and Geology
|
| CMT |
centroid moment tensor (ftp)
|
| COCORP |
Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling |
| COSMOS |
Consortium of Organizations for Strong-Motion Observation Systems |
| CROP |
Customized Reduction of Products (a tool used to pare down the volume of data from a FARM product) |
| CUREE |
Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering |
| DCC |
data collection center (like ASL and IDA) |
| DEOS |
Dynamics of Earth & Ocean Systems |
| DHI |
Data Handling Interface (IRIS) |
| DLESE |
Digital Library for Earth System Education |
| DMC |
Data Management Center |
| DMS |
Data Management System |
| DOSECC |
Drilling, Observation and Sampling of the Earth's Continental Crust, Inc. |
| EAR |
NSF Division of Earth Sciences
|
| EERI |
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute |
| ERI |
Earthquake Research Institute |
| FA |
Flexible Array |
| FARM |
Fast Archive Recovery Method |
| FDSN |
International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks |
| FEMA |
Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| GDL |
Geoscience Digital Library |
| GEO |
NSF Directorate for Geosciences |
| GGP |
Global Geodynamics Project - Recording the Earth's gravity field using superconducting gravimeters |
| GSN |
Global Seismic Network |
| HDF |
Hypocenter Data Format |
| IASPEI |
International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior |
| IDA |
International Deployment of Accelerometers (Scripps) |
| IDC |
International Data Centre, in Vienna, organization to monitor the CTBT |
| IGPP |
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (Scripps) |
| IMS |
International Monitoring System (of the UN) |
| IPGP |
Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris |
| IRIS |
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology |
| ISC |
International Seismological Centre (United Kingdom) |
| ITR |
NSF Information Technology Research |
| JSP |
Joint Seismic Program (no longer active) |
| KDI |
NSF Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence |
| Lithoprobe |
Canada's National Geoscience Project |
| LLNL |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| MAE |
Mid-America Earthquake Center |
| MCEER |
Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research |
| MDC |
Moscow Data Center |
| NEIC |
National Earthquake Information Center (USGS) |
| NEMA |
National Emergency Management Association |
| NetDC |
Networked Data Centers (a request mechanism) |
| NOC |
Network Operations Center (ASL & IDA) |
| NSDL |
National SMETE Digital Library |
| NSF |
National Science Foundation |
| OBSIP |
Ocean Bottom Seismic Instrumentation Pool |
| OCE |
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences |
| ORFEUS |
Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology |
| PASSCAL |
Program for Array Seismic Studies of the Continental Lithosphere |
| PEER |
Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center |
| PIC |
PASSCAL Instrument Center (Socorro, NM) |
| POD |
Program to Output Data (IRIS) |
| QED |
Quick Epicenter Determination (from the NEIC) |
| RELISH |
Responses Evaluated by Listing Information in SEED Headers (IRIS tool) |
| SALSA |
Scientific ALliance for South America |
| SBIR |
NSF Small Business Innovation Research |
| SC |
Standing Committee |
| SCEC |
Southern California Earthquake Center |
| SCIGN |
Southern California Integrated GPS Network |
| SEED |
Standard for the Exchange of Earthquake Data |
| SIO |
Scripps Institute of Oceanography |
| SMETE |
Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education |
| SOD |
Standing Order for Data (IRIS) |
| SOSA |
Synthetic and Observed Seismogram Analysis |
| SPYDER® |
System to Provide You Data from Earthquakes Rapidly (IRIS) |
| SQL |
Structured Query Language |
| TA |
Transportable Array |
| UCAR |
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
|
| UNAVCO |
non-profit membership-governed consortium, facilitates geoscience research and education using geodesy |
| UNIDATA |
Unidata provides a broad array of data and software tools for use in geoscience education and research |
| USNSN |
United States National Seismograph Network |
| U of W |
University of Washington |
| USGS |
United States Geological Survey |
| UV-FARM |
Ultra Long Period (.01 sam/sec ) FARM products and Very Long Period (0.1 Sam/sec) FARM products |
| VSNE |
Virtual Seismic Network Explorer (under development) |
| WEED |
Windows Extracted from Earthquake Data (a data request tool) |
| WILBER |
Web Interface to Lookup Big Events for Retrieval (an interface to FARM and SPYDER® data) |
| WQC |
Waveform Quality Center
|
| WSSPC |
Western States Seismic Policy Council |
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
