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The GEOFON program consists of a global seismic network (GE Network), a seismological data
centre (GEOFON DC) and a global earthquake monitoring system (GEOFON EQinfo). These three
pillars are part of the MESI research infrastructure of the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German
Research Centre for Geosciences aiming at facilitating scientific research. GEOFON provides realtime seismic data, access to its own and third party data from the archive facilities as well as global
and rapid earthquake information. The GEOFON Seismological Software can be considered a fourth
cross-cutting module of the GEOFON Program.
Data, services, products and software openly distributed by GEOFON are used by hundreds of scientists and data centres worldwide. Its earthquake information service is accessed directly by tens
of thousands of visitors. The SeisComP software package is the flagship software provided to the
community, which is geared for seismic observatory and data centre needs and used extensively to
support our internal operations. As all other MESI (Modular Earth Science Infrastructure) modules
GEOFON has the majority of users outside the GFZ as well as an external advisory committee that
provides advice to the GFZ Executive Board and to the GEOFON team. This report describes the
main activities carried out within the three GEOFON pillars and the software development group.
