National Earthquake Information Center - NEIC

National Earthquake Information Center, Dr. Waverly Person The mission of the National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) is to determine rapidly the location and size of all destructive earthquakes worldwide and to immediately disseminate this information to concerned national and international agencies, scientists, and the general public. The NEIC/WDC for Seismology compiles and maintains an extensive, global seismic database on earthquake parameters and their effects that serves as a solid foundation for basic and applied earth science research. Please visit the World Data Center web site to learn more about the WDC system.

Earthquake Data Available from the NEIC

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