obspy.io.mseed.core._read_mseed

_read_mseed(mseed_object, starttime=None, endtime=None, headonly=False, sourcename=None, reclen=None, details=False, header_byteorder=None, verbose=None, **kwargs)[source]

Reads a Mini-SEED file and returns a Stream object.

Warning

This function should NOT be called directly, it registers via the ObsPy read() function, call this instead.

Parameters

  • mseed_object – Filename or open file like object that contains the binary Mini-SEED data. Any object that provides a read() method will be considered to be a file like object.

  • starttime (UTCDateTime) – Only read data samples after or at the start time.

  • endtime (UTCDateTime) – Only read data samples before or at the end time.

  • headonly – Determines whether or not to unpack the data or just read the headers.

  • sourcename (str) – Only read data with matching SEED ID (can contain wildcards “?” and “*”, e.g. “BW.UH2.*” or “*.??Z”). Defaults to None .

  • reclen – If it is None, it will be automatically determined for every record. If it is known, just set it to the record length in bytes which will increase the reading speed slightly.

  • details (bool, optional) –

    If True read additional information: timing quality and availability of calibration information. Note, that the traces are then also split on these additional information. Thus the number of traces in a stream will change. Details are stored in the mseed stats AttribDict of each trace. False specifies for both cases, that this information is not available. blkt1001.timing_quality specifies the timing quality from 0 to 100 [%]. calibration_type specifies the type of available calibration information blockettes:

    • 1 : Step Calibration (Blockette 300)

    • 2 : Sine Calibration (Blockette 310)

    • 3 : Pseudo-random Calibration (Blockette 320)

    • 4 : Generic Calibration (Blockette 390)

    • -2 : Calibration Abort (Blockette 395)

  • header_byteorder (int or str, optional) – Must be either 0 or '<' for LSBF or little-endian, 1 or '>' for MBF or big-endian. '=' is the native byte order. Used to enforce the header byte order. Useful in some rare cases where the automatic byte order detection fails.

Example

>>> from obspy import read
>>> st = read("/path/to/two_channels.mseed")
>>> print(st)  
2 Trace(s) in Stream:
BW.UH3..EHE | 2010-06-20T00:00:00.279999Z - ... | 200.0 Hz, 386 samples
BW.UH3..EHZ | 2010-06-20T00:00:00.279999Z - ... | 200.0 Hz, 386 samples

>>> from obspy import UTCDateTime
>>> st = read("/path/to/two_channels.mseed",
...           starttime=UTCDateTime("2010-06-20T00:00:01"),
...           sourcename="*.?HZ")
>>> print(st)  
1 Trace(s) in Stream:
BW.UH3..EHZ | 2010-06-20T00:00:00.999999Z - ... | 200.0 Hz, 242 samples

Read with details=True to read more details of the file if present.

>>> st = read("/path/to/timingquality.mseed", details=True)
>>> print(st[0].stats.mseed.blkt1001.timing_quality)
55

False means that the necessary information could not be found in the file.

>>> print(st[0].stats.mseed.calibration_type)
False

Note that each change in timing quality from record to record may trigger a new Trace object to be created so the Stream object may contain many Trace objects if details=True is used.

>>> print(len(st))
101