ESM OGC Web-Services

The ESM Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web-Services allows to obtain event, station, waveform, and fault geometry metadata, included in the ESM database through Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web Map Service (WMS) standard.

The available WMF and WMS OGS services are:

• event

• station

• fault

Feature Notes

• The OGC web services available here point to the ESM database, which is daily updated with new events, stations, and related metadata.
• The WFS outputs are provided in gml2, kml, shape-zip, json, csv, gml3, gml32 format.
• The WMS outputs are provided in json, pdf, kml, rss+xml, geotiff, geotiff8, gif, jpeg, png, svg+xml, tiff, tiff8, html, plain format.

Citation

If you use this service or its data, please cite it as follows:
Mascandola C., Felicetta C., Russo E., Luzi L., Lanzano G., Sgobba S., Brunelli G., Ramadan F., Pacor F., ORFEUS Strong-Motion SMC (2026). Engineering Strong Motion Database (ESM), version 3.0. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV). https://doi.org/10.13127/esm.3

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