Live Jupyter Notebooks for Seismology

Server Installation

This explains how to install seismo-live on a server. For a local installation see below.

Based on: https://github.com/jupyter/tmpnb

Installation

Install Docker for you platform: http://docs.docker.com/installation

Don't use the repository version as that might be very old.

# Add the current user to the docker group
sudo usermod -a -G docker USERNAME

# git is also required, install if not available.
sudo apt-get install git

# Furthermore `make` must be available.
sudo apt-get install build-essential

# Checkout the repository (a shallow clone is enough)
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/krischer/seismo_live.git

cd seismo_live
# Can take quite a while!
make build

Running

To start it, edit the Makefile to set the desired number of Docker workers and available containers and start it with

make fresh_start

Stop it

make nuke

Help

make help

Local Installation

You might be interested in running the notebooks locally on your own computer. A big advantage is that any changes you make will no longer be deleted. You can also contribute changes you made (or entirely new notebooks) back to the seismo-live project!

The notebooks as of now require:

• Python 3.5
• The scientific Python stack (NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib)
• The Jupyter notebooks
• ObsPy >= 1.0.1
• Instaseis

We recommend to install ObsPy via Anaconda as written in its installation instructions. Then install Instaseis (does not work on Windows) according to its documentation. Finally install the Jupyter project with

$ conda install jupyter

Now just clone the project from Github, cd to the correct folder and launch the notebook server.

$ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/krischer/seismo_live.git
$ cd seismo_live/notebooks
$ jupyter-notebook

Please note that the Instaseis notebooks require a local database symlinked to seismo_live/notebooks/Instaseis/data/database. You could get one for example with:

$ wget -qO- "http://www.geophysik.uni-muenchen.de/~krischer/instaseis/20s_PREM_ANI_FORCES.tar.gz" | tar xvz -C 20s_PREM_ANI_INSTASEIS_DB