International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks

Network Codes

The following network codes are assigned by the FDSN to facilitate unique identifiers for seismological data streams.

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Network Code Network Name Operated By Deployment DOI
5A (2005-2009) Samoa Lithosphere Integrated Seismic-Petrologic Expedition
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
DOI
5A (2010-2012) Basin & Range, Pleasant Valley Faulting, Crustal-Scale Geometry of Active Continental Normal Faults
  • Oregon State University (OSU USA)
DOI
5A (2013-2013) Eastern North American Margin Explosives Test
  • University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)
DOI
5A (2014-2016) Subduction Reversal and the Ontong Java Plateau
  • University of Southampton (UK)
DOI
5A (2018-2018) Rattlesnake Ridge 2018 v2
  • University of Oregon
DOI
5A (2019-2019) Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory Mini-Array 2 Experiment
  • Penn State University
DOI
5A (2020-2020) Large Surface Explosion Coupling Experiment
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
DOI
5A (2021-2030) Temporary deployments operated by industry partners of the Swiss Seismological Service.
  • Eidgendssisch Technische Hochschule (ETH Zurich) - Swiss Seismological Service
DOI
5B (2008-2008) HLP 3C Piggy Back RT130
  • Stanford University
DOI
5B (2009-2009) TaskForce L Aquila 2009
  • GEOFON Program (GFZ-Potsdam, Germany)
Germany
5B (2010-2015) Brady Hot Spring EGS
5B (2016-2017) Tony Creek Dual Microseismic Experiment
  • University of Calgary (U of C Canada)
5B (2018-2019) Rutford Ice Stream Cooperative Research Program with British Antarctic Survey
  • Penn State University
DOI
5B (2021-2022) ET Database of Belgium DOI
5C (2008-2008) Prestudies for Rwenzori Seismic Network
5C (2009-2011) Dynamics of Lake-Calving Glaciers: Yakutat Glacier, Alaska
  • University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF, AK USA)
DOI
5C (2012-2014) TIPTIMON TAJIKISTAN
  • GEOFON Program (GFZ-Potsdam, Germany)
DOI
5C (2015-2016) September 16, 2015 Illapel Earthquake: Seismicity and Segmentation of the Nazca-South America Subudction Zone in Chile
  • University of Florida
DOI
5C (2017-2017) Perth Basin Array
  • Australian National University (ANU, Australia)
DOI
5C (2018-2025) JuraQuake
5D (2009-2020) LuxBB Germany
5D (2021-2025) Mikroseismisches Kandel Elztal Experiment DOI
5E (2010-2010) Earthquake Swarms and Aseismic Slip in the Salton Trough: High-Resolution Imaging of the Upper Frictional Stability Transition
  • Cornell University
DOI
5E (2011-2013) MINAS
  • GEOFON Program (GFZ-Potsdam, Germany)
DOI
5E (2014-2015) Cascadia Initiative
  • Oregon State University (OSU USA)
DOI
5E (2016-2025) TremAc
5F (2008-2008) South Iceland Seismic Zone 2008
  • University of Iceland
DOI
5F (2010-2011) CASE-IPY
  • University of Strasbourg (Unistra)
5F (2012-2014) GlacioBurst
  • ZAMG - Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics
DOI
5F (2015-2016) Magnetotelluric and seismic investigation of arc melt generation, delivery, and storage beneath Okmok Volcano
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison
DOI
5F (2018-2020) INTAROS temporary Ocean Bottom Seismometers (OBS) on northern Mid Atlantic Ridge
  • University of Bergen (UiB Norway) Inst of Geophysics
DOI
5F (2021-2021) Foulness Seismoacoustic Coupling Trial
  • Blacknest (AWE UK)
  • University of Leeds (UK)
DOI
5F (2022-2024) Burma Arc from Collision Kinematics to Subduction Tectonics as Observed from Passive seismic - Thailand
  • University of Missouri
DOI
5G (2004-2010) Dongbei Broadband Network
  • Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia University
DOI
5G (2011-2011) SinoProbe: Northeast China Transect
  • University of Oklahoma (OU)
DOI
5G (2012-2013) INGV Temporary Seismic Network for Emilia 2012 Sequence
5G (2014-2015) SUGAR
  • Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia University
5G (2018-2022) Lake Eyre Basin
  • Australian National University (ANU, Australia)
DOI
5H (2011-2012) Eritrea Seismic Project
DOI
5H (2013-2016) Crust of the Oman Ophiolite and its Lithosphere
  • Christian Albrechts - Universitat zu Kiel
DOI
5H (2017-2019) Central Virginia and South Carolina seismic monitoring experiment
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI&SU or Virginia Tech)
DOI
5H (2021-2023) FURTHER seismic network
5J (2014-2016) The Sardinia Passive Array Experiment (SPAE)
DOI
5J (2017-2019) ASR
  • Australian National University (ANU, Australia)
DOI
5J (2020-2022) MAGIC - Distributed Acoustic Sensing
DOI
5K (2015-2016) Wanrong Network
DOI
5K (2017-2018) Popocatépetl Volcano Temporary Deployment, 2017-2018
DOI
5K (2019-2020) Kamb Ice Stream Outlet Channel
  • Victoria University of Wellington
DOI
5K (2022-2022) Broadbands for Mines Spring 2022 Field Camp
  • Colorado School of Mines
DOI
5L (2013-2017) Seismic array data for monitoring and tracking tremor sources during subglacial floods and volcanic eruptions at Vatnajökull (Vatna Glacier), Iceland
DOI

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