ESM Grid Distances Web-Service

The ESM Grid Distances Web-Service allows the calculation of various distance metrics in the points of a grid with a spacing of 500 meters. The grid spans the entire Italian territory and can be clipped with a square or circular buffer around a point, which can be the epicenter of an event stored in the ESM database or a given nucleation point. The clipping can be done starting from a specific number of kilometers from the reference point or by considering the length of the fault multiplied by a factor according to the ESM Fault Geometry Web-Service.

A complete list of supported options and usage examples is available in the query-options webpage.

Feature Notes

• The output is provided in CSV or ESRI shapefile format.
• The fields to identify the points are X_m and Y_m in the reference system RDN2008/Italy zone (E-N). Latitude and Longitude are also provided as decimal degress in WGS84 reference system.

Backend Python software used by this web service is developed and maintained by Felicetta C. and Russo E.