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Planned power outage at SLSMF cloud environment 14-15 Sep 2026

Added on: 2026-09-11 13:59:44 by Vanhoorne, Bart
Due to a planned power outage at our cloud environment, the automated quality controlled research data APIv2 endpoint will not be available between 2026-09-14T20:00+02:00 till 2026-09-15. As soon as the power is back up, the servers will be restarted (so exact end time undefined)

Servers migrated to the latest versions

Added on: 2026-09-04 15:38:57 by Vanhoorne, Bart
After having been running on a legacy operating system and SQL server, the server software infrastructure has now been upgraded to their latest versions

Earthquake Celebes Sea (Indonesia, Philippines), 6.7M 2026-08-05T04:14Z

Added on: 2026-08-05 10:00:51 by Vanhoorne, Bart
Small waves up to 20cm can be seen at Talengen Tourism Pier, North Sulawesi (Indonesia)

Earthquake near the coast of Chiapas (Mexico), 7.3M 2026-07-17T14:49Z

Added on: 2026-07-18 11:25:14 by Vanhoorne, Bart
Waves up to almost 1m can be seen at Puerto Chiapas/Madero (Mexico)

Earthquake Near the coast of Venezuela, 7.1M 2026-06-2422:05Z

Added on: 2026-06-25 01:10:35 by Vanhoorne, Bart
Small waves can be seen at Mona Island (8.8cm), Yabucoa (7.1cm), Vieques (4.6cm) and Fort de France (4.4cm) ...

Earthquake Mindanao (Philippines), 7.8M 2026-06-07T23:38Z

Added on: 2026-06-08 09:12:55 by Vanhoorne, Bart
Waves up to almost 2m can be seen at Talengen Tourism Pier, North Sulawesi (Indonesia) ...

Earthquake Off The East Coast Of Honshu (Japan), 7.4M 2026-04-20T07:53Z

Added on: 2026-04-20 11:00:21 by Vanhoorne, Bart
Waves up to 0.5m can be seen at Ofunato (Japan)

Earthquake Northern Molucca Sea (Indonesia), 7.6M 2026-04-01T22:48Z

Added on: 2026-04-02 01:20:40 by Vanhoorne, Bart
Waves up to 1.5m can be seen at Port of Kema Fishing, North Sulawesi (Indonesia)

Statistics for the SLSMF for 2025

Added on: 2026-02-12 09:49:46 by Vanhoorne, Bart
At the end of 2025, about 1314 active stations were tracked (about 1249 in 2024).

Earthquake near East Coast of Honshu, Japan, 7.4M 2025-12-08T14:15Z

Added on: 2025-12-08 22:02:59 by Vanhoorne, Bart
Small waves up to 0.4m can be seen ...

Cyprus Tide Gauge Network "PYTHEAS" Joins IOC Global Monitoring Efforts

Added on: 2025-12-03 08:44:27 by Kokosis, Georgios
The Department of Lands and Surveys (DLS) of Cyprus has successfully incorporated its national tide gauge network, "PYTHEAS," into the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission's (IOC) international observation system. This integration significantly boosts global sea-level monitoring and disaster preparedness efforts. ...

Earthquake Mindanao (Philippines), 7.4M 2025-10-10T01:44Z

Added on: 2025-10-10 08:58:30 by Vanhoorne, Bart
Small waves up to 0.25m can be seen in: ...

12 real-time stations added by the Brazilian Coastal Monitoring System (SiMCosta)

Added on: 2025-09-30 21:29:59 by Ella Soares Pereira
The Brazilian Coastal Monitoring System (SiMCosta) aims to establish and maintain an observation network composed of fixed and floating platforms equipped with sensors to monitor essential meteorological and oceanographic variables in coastal zones, providing valuable information on the impacts of climate change along the Brazilian coast. ...

Earthquake Drake Passage, South America, 7.5M 2025-08-22T02:16Z

Added on: 2025-08-22 11:35:18 by Vanhoorne, Bart
Small waves up to 0.25m can be seen in Base Naval Capitan Arturo (Chile). ...

21 real-time stations added from Indonesia, BMKG

Added on: 2025-08-22 11:01:25 by Riama, Nelly
The recent tsunami event near Kamchatka on 29 July 2025 has underscored once again the importance of real-time sea level data sharing for coastal safety and disaster risk reduction ...

Earthquake Kamchatka, Russia, 8.8M 2025-07-29T23:24Z

Added on: 2025-07-30 08:20:00 by Vermaere, Stijn
Waves reaching up to 1.4 m struck different coasts following an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka, Russia. ...

Earthquake Crete, Greece, 5.9M 2025-05-22T03:19Z

Added on: 2025-05-22 08:52:28 by Vanhoorne, Bart
Small waves up to 0.1m can be seen in Heraklion (Greece).

Earthquake Drake Passage, Argentinia, 7.5M 2025-05-02T12:59Z

Added on: 2025-05-02 22:28:13 by Vanhoorne, Bart
Waves up to 0.5m can be seen in Vernadsky Faraday (Antarctica).

Automatically QC research sea level data and new API released

Added on: 2025-03-27 14:21:57 by Vermaere, Stijn
The automatically quality-controlled research sea level dataset is now live, together with a new API.

Geo-INQUIRE webinar: SLSMF API, with real-time and daily automated quality-controlled sea level research data

Added on: 2025-03-26 10:17:24 by Vanhoorne, Bart
Online training event on the new Sea Level Station Monitoring Facility (SLSMF) API, with real-time and daily automated quality-controlled sea level research data.

Background

The objective of this service is
  • to provide information about the operational status of global and regional networks of real time sea level stations
  • to provide a display service for quick inspection of the raw data stream from individual stations.

This web-site initially focused on operational monitoring of sea level measuring stations in Africa and was developed from collaboration between Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) and the ODINAFRICA project of IODE. The site has since been expanded to a global station monitoring service for real time sea level measuring stations that are part of IOC programmes i.e. (i) the Global Sea Level Observing System Core Network; and (ii) the networks under the regional tsunami warning systems in the Indian Ocean (IOTWS), North East Atlantic & Mediterranean (NEAMTWS), Pacific (PTWS) and the Caribbean (CARIBE-EWS).

Long-term mean sea level (MSL) data

This GLOSS data center focusses on collecting and redistributing high frequency, relative sea level data in real-time.
Most stations provide values every minute and are updated each 5 minutes.
The GLOSS data centers at the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL), the British Oceanographic Data Center (BODC) and the University of Hawaii Sea Level Center (UHSLC) perform the additional processing steps needed to calculate long-term mean sea level (MSL) data at hourly, daily, monthly and yearly averages.
Where available, the station detail page links to these mean sea level data series

Citation

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ); Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) (2026): Sea level station monitoring facility. Accessed at http://www.ioc-sealevelmonitoring.org on 2026-09-16 at VLIZ. DOI: 10.14284/482

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