Brian, Edgard, TJ Shaffer,
I got a group email from the USGS letting people know about an update to their data services. We checked and this does not impact the picket fence. I'm putting some email here for documentation
-Brian
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From: Edgard Luis Bonilla <edgard@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: [Data Announcements] EarthScope fdsnws-dataselect service has moved to service.earthscope.org
Date: January 5, 2026 at 5:01:56 PM PST
To: Brian Thomas Lantz <blantz@stanford.edu>
Cc: TJ Shaffer <thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG>, "michael.thomas@ligo.org" <michael.thomas@ligo.org>
Confirmed. The picket fences work.
Please let me know if anyone sees any issues and we will address them.
(... and ...)
I don't think this will be an issue. We don't use any restricted data for the Picket Fence.
I will go down to the lab before end of day to confirm we can still run it.
Best,
Edgard Bonilla
From: Brian Thomas Lantz <blantz@stanford.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 5, 2026 4:11 PM
To: Edgard Luis Bonilla <edgard@stanford.edu>
Cc: TJ Shaffer <thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG>; michael.thomas@ligo.org <michael.thomas@ligo.org>
Subject: Fwd: [Data Announcements] EarthScope fdsnws-dataselect service has moved to service.earthscope.org
Edgard -
I got this notice about the seismic network over the break. Do we need to do anything about this?
-Brian
Begin forwarded message:
From: Chad Trabant <chad.trabant@earthscope.org>
Subject: [Data Announcements] EarthScope fdsnws-dataselect service has moved to service.earthscope.org
Date: January 1, 2026 at 11:47:37 AM PST
To: data-announcements@earthscope.org
Reply-To: data-announcements+managers@earthscope.org
Happy new year!
EarthScope's fdsnws-dataselect web service, the primary source of miniSEED data from our seismological repository, has moved from service.iris.edu to service.earthscope.org as part of our cloud transition.
Details are below and documented on the service documentation page:
https://service.earthscope.org/fdsnws/dataselect/1
We've worked to make this transition seamless, but if you encounter issues please contact help@earthscope.org.
Action required for restricted data users: You will need new credentials. Visit https://www.earthscope.org/user, create an account (if you do not already have one), then:
navigate to the
Credentials tab
click "REVEAL MY
CREDENTIALS," and then "CREATE FDSNWS CREDENTIALS" if none exist. These credentials are specific to you and should be kept private.
Redirects from the old service to the new
The old service location (at service.iris.edu) continues to operate, but instead of providing data redirects to the new location. The vast majority of web software follow these redirects automatically or can be configured to do so.
New HTTPS (TLS v1.2+) requirement
The service now requires secure HTTPS, specifically TLS 1.2 or later. Requests to the un-secure HTTP endpoint will be redirected to the HTTPS endpoint according to current best practices.
Some older software may not follow redirects from unsecure HTTP to secure HTTPS. Configure the software, if possible, to use the direct URL to the service https://service.earthscope.org/fdsnws/dataselect/1
Some older software may not support TLS 1.2+. As this standard was defined in 2008 and became default on most client and server software by 2016, we do not anticipate this causing many problems.
More details for client developers and power users
Changes in the new service:
Some output formats are not yet supported: SAC and text. These will be added later.
The
following parameters are being permanently retired: quality,
minimumlength,
longestonly,
repository,
szsrecs.
With the removal
of the szsrecs
parameter the service will no longer remove zero-sample records (as was the previous default), which matches the behavior of all other data center implementations.
There are limits
on the volume of data that will be returned. We recommend limiting requests to one station for a 24-hour period at the most.
Some HTTP response codes for errors have changed to be more precise, but they remain
broadly recognized codes.
Please reach out to help@earthscope.org if you have any questions or run into trouble with this new service.
Thanks,
The EarthScope Data Services team
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