GCMT Catalog
Properly cite it
We are not the original authors of that data. If you use it, please
cite the GCMT
project by clicking the link or citing the following pair of
papers:
Dziewonski, A. M., T.-A. Chou and J. H. Woodhouse,
Determination of earthquake source parameters from waveform data
for studies of global and regional seismicity, J. Geophys.
Res., 86, 2825-2852, 1981.
doi:10.1029/JB086iB04p02825
Ekström, G., M. Nettles, and A. M. Dziewonski, The global
CMT project 2004-2010: Centroid-moment tensors for 13,017
earthquakes, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 200-201, 1-9, 2012.
doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2012.04.002
This page contains the Global Centroid Moment Tensor
catalog in a format suitable for fast ingestion
by Salvus. The centroid origins, times, and moment tensors are stored in a
bzip2 compressed CSV file which is much smaller and faster to parse than the
original GCMT catalog files. The code to generate this file is open-source
and can be found here.