CSEP 2 CATALOG FORMAT

Catalog Format

Catalog properties: 1. User friendly (easy for non-developers to work with) 2. Self-consistent and Independent 3. Extensible 4. Easy represented in other formats

Considerations: 1. File format 2. Catalogs per File 3. Contents of File

Summary

The catalog will initially be defined as an ASCII .csv format where each row corresponds to a single event. This file will have the following headers:

longitude, latitude, M, epoch_time (time in millisecond since Unix epoch in GMT), depth, +x-offset, +y-offset, catalog_id, event_id

longitude latitude M epoch_time depth +x-offset +x-offset catalog_id event_id