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INSTANCE Events Metadata, version 1

Type Dataset Class type Seismological and infrasonic data (Earth and sea)

Machine Learning Big Data Seismic Event Detection Ground Motion Estimation Analysis Benchmarking Seismic Tomography

This dataset collects seismic event waveforms metadata and is part of INSTANCE. INSTANCE is a data collection of more than 1.3 million seismic waveforms originating from a selection of about 54,000 earthquakes occurred since 2005 in Italy and surrounding regions and seismic noise recordings randomly extracted from event free time windows of the continuous waveforms archive. The purpose is to provide reference datasets useful to develop and test seismic data processing routines based on machine learning and deep learning frameworks. The primary source of this information is ISIDe (Italian Seismological Instrumental and Parametric Data-Base) for earthquakes and the Italian node of EIDA (http://eida.ingv.it) for seismic data. All the waveforms have been sized to a 120 s window, preprocessed and resampled at 100 Hz. For each trace we provide a large number of parameters as metadata, either derived from event information or computed from trace data. Associated metadata allow for the identification of the source, the station, the path travelled by seismic waves and assessment of the trace quality. The total size of the data collection is about 330 GB. Waveforms files are available either in counts or ground motion units in hdf5 format to facilitate fast access from commonly used machine learning frameworks.

Data and Resources

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Cite as

Michelini A., Cianetti S., Gaviano S., Giunchi C., Jozinović D., Lauciani V. (2021). INSTANCE Events Metadata, version 1 [Data set]. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV). https://doi.org/10.13127/instance/eventsmetadata.1

Available data encoding formats csv

Field Value
Version 1
Dataset Identifier (DOI) 10.13127/instance/eventsmetadata.1
Acronym INSTANCE
Other Identifier OthId Identifier: ingv_478
OthId Organization: INGV
Dataset Themes TECH
Publisher Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Release Date 2021-03
Modification Date 10-05-2021
Geographical Name Organizational Unit Responsible Competence Area
GeoNames URL Not available
Dataset Languages ITA
Temporal Coverage From 01-01-2005 until 31-01-2020
Rights holder Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
ROR 00qps9a02
IPA ingv
Update frequency never
Version Of Not available
Spatial extent {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[5,35],[19,35],[19,49],[5,49]]]}
Authors MICHELINI Alberto
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy
CIANETTI Spina
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy
GAVIANO Sonja
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy
GIUNCHI Carlo
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy
JOZINOVIć Dario
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy
LAUCIANI Valentino
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy
Class type Earthquakes Department
Seismological and infrasonic data (Earth and sea)

Contributing projects

  • ARISTOTLE - All Risk Integrated System Towards the Holistic Early-Warning
    European Commission (EC) - ECHO
    [ 2016-02-01 ⇒ 2018-01-31 ]
  • Pianeta Dinamico: Geoscienze per la comprensione dei meccanismi di funzionamento della Terra e dei conseguenti rischi naturali
    Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca (MUR)
    [ 2019-01-01 ⇒ 2029-12-31 ]

Other contributors

  • CIANETTI Spina (Data Collector)
  • GIUNCHI Carlo (Data Manager)
  • GAVIANO Sonja (Researcher)
  • JOZINOVIć Dario (Data Curator)
  • LAUCIANI Valentino (Data Curator)
  • MICHELINI Alberto (Project Leader)

Data schema

Newer datasets

  • The dataset has the following newer version
    • Michelini A., Cianetti S., Gaviano S., Giunchi C., Jozinović D., Lauciani V. (2021). INSTANCE Events Metadata, version 2 [Data set]. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV). https://doi.org/10.13127/instance/eventsmetadata.2
    • Michelini A., Cianetti S., Gaviano S., Giunchi C., Jozinović D., Lauciani V. (2024). INSTANCE Events Metadata, version 3 [Data set]. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV). https://doi.org/10.13127/instance/eventsmetadata.3