QuakeML
The RFC process for QuakeML version 1.0 has started. Please go to page ["RFC_BED_1.0"] to publish your comments.
QuakeML is a flexible, extensible and modular XML representation of seismological data which is intended to cover a broad range of fields of application in modern seismology.
QuakeML is an open standard and is developed by a distributed team in a transparent collaborative manner. The first part of QuakeML will cover basic seismic event description, including moment tensors. The standard document is about to be subjected to a Request for Comments process. A pre-RFC draft document can be found in the Documents section.
The standardization process for resource metadata and inventory information is also under way, but still in the pre-RFC stage. The flexible approach of QuakeML allows further extensions of the standard in order to represent waveform data, macroseismic information, probability density functions, moment tensors, slip distributions, shake maps, and others.
If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us at [mailto:quakeml@sed.ethz.ch quakeml@sed.ethz.ch].