Hello,
It seems there have been issues with the timeliness of the FDSNWS service for some time now. Even now (9:08 UTC), the link to a recent earthquake in my neighborhood is blank.
https://data.raspberryshake.org/fdsnws/dataselect/1/query?starttime=2026-05-07T04:45:53&endtime=2026-05-07T04:48:53&network=AM&station=R28DF
It is of no use to me if data is filled in retroactively.
Can anything be done to change this situation?
Best regards
Hello jheiler, thanks for your notification.
I’ve asked the server team to check our FDSNWS logs (to see if we could identify the data retrieval issue there), and your request appears about 5 minutes before your message, with it being successfully satisfied as far as we can see.
Could you provide more details about what you saw when you ran the query so we can try to pinpoint and recreate the issue on our side? Was it from StationView, or a direct request from our FDSNWS portal?
Did you get a blank page, an empty MSEED file, or a permanently loading window? Or something different?
Testing it now, it appears that data is queried and retrieved correctly, but I understand it’s many hours after your first try. Thank you.
As general information for all readers who may be interested in this, the background server infrastructure has been updated (and constantly continues to be) with a definite improvement in performance. Not being a real-time streaming protocol, FDSNWS will serve data T-30 minutes and older.
Thank you.
I downloaded the data from the StationView website (“Event Data (MSeed format)”), but the MSeed file was empty.
Thank you, this is very helpful as it is a peculiar situation. I have passed this information to our server team.
If you haven’t already tried, could you:
- Download the same event for your Shake again via StationView
- And also, download another more recent event (even on a different Shake) to try to re-create your original situation?
Do you still get an empty MSEED, or is the file correctly filled?
Thank you, jheiler.
We are investigating the possible causes of the issue you’re seeing, and we’ll update you as soon as possible.