ANSS Backbone
The ANSS backbone is based on the core of the original US National Seismic Network. In partnership with the National Science Foundation, the USGS worked with the Earthscope program (through the USArray project and IRIS) in 2004-2006 to upgrade and install new backbone stations. This effort was completed in September 2006, with 15 new stations installed and 20 existing stations upgraded. Today, the ANSS Backbone consists of nearly 100 stations in the United States, many of them contributed by partner networks and organizations.
ANSS backbone stations and dense urban networks.
Network Status:
Partners:
- Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Air Force ISR Agency - AFTAC
- Alaska Earthquake Information Center
- Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, University of California Berkeley
- Caltech Seismological Laboratory
- Center for Earthquake Research and Information, University of Memphisn
- IDA, University of California San Diego
- Lamont-Doherty Cooperative Seismographic Network
- NOAA West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Center
- Nevada Seismological Laboratory
- Sandia National Laboratories
- UUSS University of Utah Seismograph Stations
- Federation of Digital Broad-Band Seismograph Networks (FDSN)