Shear-wave splitting data base


We want to faciliate the overview of existing shear-wave splitting measurements and share the results of the analysis and experiments with everybody.

GoogleEarth Screenshot Please feel free to search the database.
To add your own measurements you need a password which can be obtained by writing a short email to splitting@gm.univ-montp2.fr. Thank you for your understanding.
For entering your data we prepared a browser interface. Please have a look at our Preview

We provide two different output formats of the database, text files of splitting parameters and references and the database in GoogleEarth format

Please visit the Download page to obtain the complete database



Citing the SKS splitting database using its DOI:

Barruol, G., Wuestefeld, A., & Bokelmann, G. (2009). SKS-Splitting-database. Université de Montpellier, Laboratoire Géosciences. https://doi.org/10.18715/sks_splitting_database


Important notice: The SplittingDataBase is an open-access database. It contains SKS splitting parameters, but also all the corresponding article references. So, do not forget to cite the proper works & references in your publications when using and extracting data from this base.


If you use the data or maps in publications please cite the SplittingDataBase using the following reference:

Wüstefeld, A.; Bokelmann, G. H. R.; Barruol, G.; Montagner, J.-P. (2009) "Identifying global seismic anisotropy patterns by correlating shear-wave splitting and surface waves data" , Phys. Earth Planet. Int, 176 (3-4), 198-212, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2009.05.006 (database available online at http://splitting.gm.univ-montp2.fr/)



We recommend SplitLab to perform your splitting processing!



You might also be interested by a different approach undertaken by Matt Evans and Mike Kendall. Please visit their "Automated Splitting database"
To easily plot the SKS splitting results with GMT4, you can use the script draw_splitDB.txt kindly provided by Frederik Tilmann (GFZ Potsdam).


We have also prepared a some other useful datasets for
(you need GoogleEarth4.0.2080 or later)

If you have any questions or comments, please contact us at: splitting@gm.univ-montp2.fr
( A. Wüstefeld   G. Barruol   G. Bokelmann )

Page & DB maintained by G. Barruol 31/05/2018


This database has been created using the php-database pjjTextBase

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