Earthworm

 
 

Overview

Earthworm (v7.9 as of Nov 11, 2016) is an open source (not to be confused with open architecture) software system used globally for regional and local network seismology. It has been around since the early 1990s and is used by over 180+ organizations worldwide for monitoring earthquakes and volcanoes. For more information about Earthworm, visit the Earthworm Web pages and join the Earthworm Google Group mailing list. ISTI serves as the primary maintainer of the Earthworm source code. We also host the ewdev developer mailing list and the SVN source code repository. Having worked with Earthworm since our inception, we are your source for training, configuration, remote support, and other Earthworm services. We base all our seismic monitoring on Earthworm and AQMS. Join the growing ranks of companies and institutions using Earthworm and ask us how we can get you a cost-effective solution with no recurring fees.

+ Commercial Support

In addition to maintaining the Earthworm source code, ISTI provides commercial support for Earthworm in the form of installation, upgrades, new software development, and training. One of our more popular tools is EZ Earthworm (EZW), which allows for easy, quick, and remote microseismic monitoring.

+ Other Earthworm Services

Other flavors of Earthworm that ISTI installs are Bulletin Hydra (in use and developed at the National Earthquake Information Center) and EarlyBird (in use around the world for Tsunami monitoring; developed by the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center). In fact, ISTI provided the Linux port of EarlyBird back to the Earthworm community as a free service. ISTI provides AQMS installations as well. AQMS is an Earthworm wrapper that provides a post-processing solution in use by the majority of Regional Seismic Networks and all of the Volcano Monitoring Networks in the United States.

+ ISTI Earthworm Tools

In addition to providing support and services, we have a set of exclusive ISTI-licensed tools to help with your network operations and performance. Services our tools can provide include paging you with a ground motion value from an earthquake or simply SMSing you earthquake details over a hardware modem. We can also connect the CISN Display (aka QuakeWatch: A GIS based Graphical User Interface to earthquake information and products) to Earthworm and EarlyBird with our plugin modules. We have experience with the Earthworm database MoleDB and the web tools to connect to it, and we can build you a custom Earthworm solution that will improve your earthquake locations and processing beyond what you could imagine.

+ Shakemap

ISTI supports the installation, configuration, and running of ShakeMap on Linux and Mac OSX servers. Read more.