<p>I think you can use WILBER3 by IRIS to find out more I'm not sure if that is what you need but give it a try. Also, have you tried retrieving the event data which got recorded by that station for whatever period of time the station is operating using Obspy get_events?</p>

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Thanks. I'm looking to download long time series from specific stations (for example, data for a whole month), so I'm trying to identify stations that actually have that kind of data, as opposed to just event data. I don't think your proposed solution helps me with that goal.
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<p>I am trying to identify which stations within the NCEDC network are continuously recording ground motion, and which record only intermittently. I am using <code>obspy</code>'s FDSN client to access station metadata and waveforms. Is there a way to do this without accessing the waveform data?</p>
<p>For example, the station <a href="https://ds.iris.edu/mda/NC/J032/?starttime=2009-11-25&amp;endtime=3000-01-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">NC.J032</a> appears to record intermittently, as there was only 1 trace lasting about 3 minutes between 2023-01-01 and 2023-01-31. Is there some way I can figure this out using station metadata only, either using <code>obspy</code> or through some other means?</p>

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Identifying continuously-recording seismic stations
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# Identifying continuously-recording seismic stations

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-09-29)

I am trying to identify which stations within the NCEDC network are continuously recording ground motion, and which record only intermittently. I am using `obspy`'s FDSN client to access station metadata and waveforms. Is there a way to do this without accessing the waveform data?

For example, the station [NC.J032](https://ds.iris.edu/mda/NC/J032/?starttime=2009-11-25&endtime=3000-01-01) appears to record intermittently, as there was only 1 trace lasting about 3 minutes between 2023-01-01 and 2023-01-31. Is there some way I can figure this out using station metadata only, either using `obspy` or through some other means?

**Tags:** geophysics, seismology, data-analysis


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2023-09-30. Score: 1

I think you can use WILBER3 by IRIS to find out more I'm not sure if that is what you need but give it a try. Also, have you tried retrieving the event data which got recorded by that station for whatever period of time the station is operating using Obspy get\_events?

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> **username_0**: Thanks. I'm looking to download long time series from specific stations (for example, data for a whole month), so I'm trying to identify stations that actually have that kind of data, as opposed to just event data. I don't think your proposed solution helps me with that goal.  

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