# Syngine Error on non-Z components

**URL:** https://discourse.obspy.org/t/syngine-error-on-non-z-components/897
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**Created:** [May 28, 2020, 10:22am UTC](https://discourse.obspy.org/t/syngine-error-on-non-z-components/897 "2020-05-28T10:22:59Z")
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### Author: ![Christoph\_Sens-Schon](https://discourse.obspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Christoph\_Sens-Schon](https://discourse.obspy.org/u/Christoph_Sens-Schon)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2020, 10:22am UTC](https://discourse.obspy.org/t/syngine-error-on-non-z-components/897/1 "2020-05-28T10:22:59Z")

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Hi all,

Am I doing something wrong here? I can only get ‚Z‘ component synthetics from the syngine client.

Christoph

In [**1**]: **from**  **obspy.clients.syngine**  **import** Client  
…: **import**  **sys**  
…: client = Client()  
…: par = {‘model’:‘ak135f\_1s’,  
…: ‘sourcelatitude’:90.,  
…: ‘sourcelongitude’:0.,  
…: ‘bulk’:[[40.0, 0.0]],  
…: ‘sourcedepthinmeters’:10000,  
…: ‘sourceforce’:[1,1,1],  
…: ‘units’:‘velocity’,  
…: ‘format’:‘miniSEED’}  
…:  
…: **for** component **in** ‘ZNERT’:  
…: print(component)  
…: **try** :  
…: st = client.get\_waveforms\_bulk(\*\*par, components=component)  
…: print(st)  
…: **except** :  
…: type, value, tb = sys.exc\_info()  
…: print(type, value)  
…:  
Z  
1 Trace(s) in Stream:  
XX.S0001.SE.BXZ | 1900-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z - 1900-01-01T00:30:45.100000Z | 20.0 Hz, 36903 samples  
N  
\<class ‘obspy.clients.base.ClientHTTPException’\> HTTP code 204 when downloading '[http://service.iris.edu/irisws/syngine/1/query’:](http://service.iris.edu/irisws/syngine/1/query':)  
E  
\<class ‘obspy.clients.base.ClientHTTPException’\> HTTP code 204 when downloading '[http://service.iris.edu/irisws/syngine/1/query’:](http://service.iris.edu/irisws/syngine/1/query':)  
R  
\<class ‘obspy.clients.base.ClientHTTPException’\> HTTP code 204 when downloading '[http://service.iris.edu/irisws/syngine/1/query’:](http://service.iris.edu/irisws/syngine/1/query':)  
T  
\<class ‘obspy.clients.base.ClientHTTPException’\> HTTP code 204 when downloading '[http://service.iris.edu/irisws/syngine/1/query’:](http://service.iris.edu/irisws/syngine/1/query':)

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In [**2**]: par = {‘model’:‘ak135f\_1s’,  
…: ‘sourcelatitude’:90.,  
…: ‘sourcelongitude’:0.,  
…: ‘receiverlatitude’:40.,  
…: ‘receiverlongitude’:0.,  
…: ‘sourcedepthinmeters’:10000,  
…: ‘sourceforce’:[1,1,1],  
…: ‘units’:‘velocity’,  
…: ‘format’:‘miniSEED’}  
…: **for** component **in** ‘ZNERT’:  
…: print(component)  
…: **try** :  
…: st = client.get\_waveforms(\*\*par, components=component)  
…: print(st)  
…: **except** :  
…: type, value, tb = sys.exc\_info()  
…: print(type, value)  
…:  
Z  
1 Trace(s) in Stream:  
XX.S0001.SE.BXZ | 1900-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z - 1900-01-01T00:30:45.100000Z | 20.0 Hz, 36903 samples  
N  
\<class ‘obspy.clients.base.ClientHTTPException’\> HTTP code 204 when downloading '[http://service.iris.edu/irisws/syngine/1/query?model=ak135f\_1s&components=N&units=velocity&format=miniSEED&receiverlatitude=40.0&receiverlongitude=0.0&sourcelatitude=90.0&sourcelongitude=0.0&sourcedepthinmeters=10000.0&sourceforce=1%2C1%2C1’:](http://service.iris.edu/irisws/syngine/1/query?model=ak135f_1s&components=N&units=velocity&format=miniSEED&receiverlatitude=40.0&receiverlongitude=0.0&sourcelatitude=90.0&sourcelongitude=0.0&sourcedepthinmeters=10000.0&sourceforce=1%2C1%2C1':)  
E  
\<class ‘obspy.clients.base.ClientHTTPException’\> HTTP code 204 when downloading '[http://service.iris.edu/irisws/syngine/1/query?model=ak135f\_1s&components=E&units=velocity&format=miniSEED&receiverlatitude=40.0&receiverlongitude=0.0&sourcelatitude=90.0&sourcelongitude=0.0&sourcedepthinmeters=10000.0&sourceforce=1%2C1%2C1’:](http://service.iris.edu/irisws/syngine/1/query?model=ak135f_1s&components=E&units=velocity&format=miniSEED&receiverlatitude=40.0&receiverlongitude=0.0&sourcelatitude=90.0&sourcelongitude=0.0&sourcedepthinmeters=10000.0&sourceforce=1%2C1%2C1':)  
R  
\<class ‘obspy.clients.base.ClientHTTPException’\> HTTP code 204 when downloading '[http://service.iris.edu/irisws/syngine/1/query?model=ak135f\_1s&components=R&units=velocity&format=miniSEED&receiverlatitude=40.0&receiverlongitude=0.0&sourcelatitude=90.0&sourcelongitude=0.0&sourcedepthinmeters=10000.0&sourceforce=1%2C1%2C1’:](http://service.iris.edu/irisws/syngine/1/query?model=ak135f_1s&components=R&units=velocity&format=miniSEED&receiverlatitude=40.0&receiverlongitude=0.0&sourcelatitude=90.0&sourcelongitude=0.0&sourcedepthinmeters=10000.0&sourceforce=1%2C1%2C1':)  
T  
\<class ‘obspy.clients.base.ClientHTTPException’\> HTTP code 204 when downloading '[http://service.iris.edu/irisws/syngine/1/query?model=ak135f\_1s&components=T&units=velocity&format=miniSEED&receiverlatitude=40.0&receiverlongitude=0.0&sourcelatitude=90.0&sourcelongitude=0.0&sourcedepthinmeters=10000.0&sourceforce=1%2C1%2C1’:](http://service.iris.edu/irisws/syngine/1/query?model=ak135f_1s&components=T&units=velocity&format=miniSEED&receiverlatitude=40.0&receiverlongitude=0.0&sourcelatitude=90.0&sourcelongitude=0.0&sourcedepthinmeters=10000.0&sourceforce=1%2C1%2C1':)

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### Author: ![LionKrischer](https://discourse.obspy.org/user_avatar/discourse.obspy.org/lionkrischer/32/219_2.png) [@LionKrischer](https://discourse.obspy.org/u/LionKrischer)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://discourse.obspy.org/t/syngine-error-on-non-z-components/897/2 "2020-05-28T10:45:12Z")

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Hi Christoph,

the chosen database only has the vertical component available. See this table here:

Cheers!

Lion