En Español: Artículo sobre ZMAP en el Boletín E-Bol del Centro de Geociencias.

What is ZMAP?

ZMAP is an interactive software tool to investigate and visualize seismicity as

a function of space and time.

ZMAP was mainly developed by Stefan Wiemer.

Ramón Zúñiga, Alexander Allman, Denise Bachmann, Matt Gerstenberger,
Zhong Lu, Francesco Pacchiani, Yuzo Toda, Jochen Woessner, and Danijel
Schorlemmer, among others, collaborated by coding additional routines and
features.

Currently there is an ongoing effort at ETH, Zurich, to update and improve

ZMAP. The maintenance and coding is carried out by Celso Reyes under the
supervision of Stefan Wiemer.

The original goal of ZMAP was to detect potential seismicity anomalies and to
avoid subjectivity in defining volumes for study, as well as to study the overall
characteristics of earthquake catalogs. The package later evolved into a more
general seismicity analysis system, including many tools.

Some of the features of ZMAP V6, are:

• Seismicity rate changes can be resolved as an almost continuous

function of space and time
• Detailed analyses can be carried out on selected regions.
• Different display views, maps, profiles and useful statistics (such
as b and p values) can be easily calculated and visualized.
• Synthetic catalogs can be constructed and compared
• Variations of b values can be resolved in time and space
• More complex analysis can be performed with the help of a user
oriented interface

To-date ZMAP is still used in several seismological observatories and has

been cited in over 300 research articles (you can peruse a chronological list
updated to 2017 here)

ZMAP was written in MATLAB™, and is available for donwloading as open

source.

The following are examples of some of the interfaces ZMAP V6 employs to

operate
For additional details, more examples, and new developments you can:

• Take a look at the ZMAP Version 3 Tutorial (old but still useful) written
by Stefan Wiemer.
• Browse through the CookBook (for Version 6, 2001) written by Stefan
Wiemer, Max Wyss and Ramón Zúñiga.
• Consult the reference: Wiemer, S.. A software package to analyse
seismicity: ZMAP. Seismol. Res. Lett., 72, 3, 373-382, 2001
• After changes in MATLAB´s kernel and recent improvements in data
gathering and display rendering, a new version of MATLAB (V7) has
been released by ETH. Read more about it here ZMAP V7 C. Reyes

DOWNLOADS

• Download the last maintained version of ZMAP (ZMAP7) by clicking on

the map below

• Download ZMAP6 by clicking on the map below

• NOTE FOR USERS OF RECENT MATLAB RELEASES WHICH
WANT TO RUN ZMAP6: MATLAB has changed its coding considerably
and unfortunately ZMAP6 no longer works on current releases. With
some of the releases before R2014b, ZMAP6 can still be used but there
is a conflict with a MATLAB routine, so a patch is needed:

1. download and uncompress the patch ZMAPpatch.zip

2. place the file zmap.m in directory /zmap

3. place the file message2.m in directory /zmap/src