obspy.clients.earthworm.client.Client.get_waveforms

Client.get_waveforms(network, station, location, channel, starttime, endtime, cleanup=True)[source]

Retrieves waveform data from Earthworm Wave Server and returns an ObsPy Stream object.

Parameters:
  • filename (str) Name of the output file.
  • network (str) Network code, e.g. 'UW'.
  • station (str) Station code, e.g. 'TUCA'.
  • location (str) Location code, e.g. '--'.
  • channel (str) Channel code, e.g. 'BHZ'. Last character (i.e. component) can be a wildcard (‘?’ or ‘*’) to fetch Z, N and E component.
  • starttime (UTCDateTime) Start date and time.
  • endtime (UTCDateTime) End date and time.
  • cleanup (bool) Specifies whether perfectly aligned traces should be merged or not. See obspy.core.stream.Stream.merge() for method=-1.
Returns:

ObsPy Stream object.

Example

>>> from obspy.clients.earthworm import Client
>>> client = Client("pubavo1.wr.usgs.gov", 16022)
>>> dt = UTCDateTime() - 2000  # now - 2000 seconds
>>> st = client.get_waveforms('AV', 'ACH', '', 'BHE', dt, dt + 10)
>>> st.plot()  
>>> st = client.get_waveforms('AV', 'ACH', '', 'BH*', dt, dt + 10)
>>> st.plot()  

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