QuakeML
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 [:People:team] in a transparent collaborative manner. The first part of QuakeML will cover basic seismic event description, including moment tensors. The current version of QuakeML is [attachment:docs/latest/QuakeML-BED.pdf 1.1]. It is the result of a public [:RFC_BED_1.0:Request for Comments] process which the previous version ([attachment:docs/PR/QuakeML-BED-20080225.pdf 1.0.1]) was subjected to. Version 1.2 is upcoming, release candidates are available for revision (standard definition [attachment:docs/PR/QuakeML-BED-20130129.pdf PDF], schema tarballs [attachment:Documents/1.2-RC5.tgz QuakeML-1.2-RC5], [attachment:Documents/1.2-RT-RC5.tgz QuakeML-RT-1.2-RC5]).
The standardization process for resource metadata and inventory information is 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, 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].